v0.2.1-alpha

• Add unit tests.
• Support for MRS one-box configuration with mrsOneBoxConfiguration for Ubuntu based DSVM.
• Allow stop operation for all DSVMs under a resource group with stopDSVMAll.
• Support for adding extension to a DSVM with addExtensionDSVM.
• Fix a few bugs.
• Case studies using AzureDSVM are available in repos Microsoft/acceleratoRs
  • Solar panel power forecasting - a single DSVM for Keras R interface with CNTK backend.
  • Flight delay prediction - a heterogeneous set of DSVMs for local Spark based feature selection, deep learning model training, and model deployment.

Version 0.2.0

• Supports for Windows (including deep learning toolkit) and Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, and R Server) DSVM.
• Allows vectorized arguments for deploying heterogeneous DSVMs.
• One-box configuration for MRS VM in silent mode.
• Supports MRS remote execution.
• Deprecation
  • Data consumption and cost calculation functions are moved to AzureSMR package.
  • Clustering happens only when DSVMs are identically Ubuntu based with public-key authentication method.
• Coding style and convention coherent to AzureSMR.