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Use Googe Colab 

What is Google Colab?

Google's Colaboratory is a free online cloud-based Jupyter notebook environment on Google-hosted machines, with some added features, like the possibility to attach a GPU or a TPU if needed with 12 hours of continuous execution time. After that, the whole virtual machine is cleared and one has to start again. The user can run multiple CPU, GPU, and TPU instances simultaneously, but the resources are shared between these instances.

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The notebook for this tutorial can be found found here. The .ipynb file is available in the attachment section and in this GitHub repository.

Indeed, the notebook can be opened by inserting the GitHub URL bdanzi/Higgs_exercise and clicking on the VBF_exercise.ipynb icon :

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OR one can just click on the following link:  https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1hVA0E5kosM2gdFkJINb6WeVp5hjG1ML1?usp=sharing.

Be sure to work on a copy of the notebook in Google Drive in both cases clicking on the Copy to Drive icon as shown below:

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The datasets files are stored on Recas Bari's ownCloud and are automatically loaded by the notebook. In case, they are also available here (4 muons decay channel) for the main exercise and here (4 electrons decay channel) for the optional exercise.

In the following, the most important excerpts are described.

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