Our Labs

Cloud-hosted training labs with industry-grade hardware and tools for every AI discipline

All AI Labs environments are cloud-hosted and fully managed. Students get dedicated lab instances provisioned on-demand for each exercise — no setup, no configuration conflicts, full GPU access when you need it.

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Jupyter Notebook Lab

Vertex AI Workbench
Specs: n1-standard-4 (4 vCPU, 15 GB RAM), Standard persistent disk

Standard Python development environment for data exploration, visualization, and introductory ML. Pre-configured with Python 3.11, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, and scikit-learn.

Pre-installed Tools

JupyterLab Python 3.11 NumPy / Pandas / Matplotlib scikit-learn Git integration

Used In Courses

AI & Python Foundations Data Engineering for AI AI Product Management & Leadership
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GPU Training Lab

Vertex AI Workbench with NVIDIA T4
Specs: n1-standard-8 + 1x NVIDIA T4 (16 GB VRAM), 200 GB SSD

Single-GPU environment for training deep learning models, running computer vision pipelines, and experimenting with neural network architectures. Pre-loaded with PyTorch, TensorFlow, and CUDA toolkit.

Pre-installed Tools

PyTorch 2.x / TensorFlow 2.x CUDA 12.x + cuDNN Hugging Face Transformers OpenCV Weights & Biases

Used In Courses

Machine Learning Engineering Computer Vision & Visual AI AI for Cybersecurity
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Multi-GPU Training Lab

GCP Compute Engine / Vertex AI Custom Training
Specs: a2-highgpu-2g (2x NVIDIA A100 40 GB, 24 vCPU, 170 GB RAM), 500 GB SSD

High-performance multi-GPU environment for distributed training, large model experiments, and advanced deep learning research. Supports data parallelism, model parallelism, and mixed-precision training.

Pre-installed Tools

PyTorch Distributed (FSDP / DDP) DeepSpeed NVIDIA Apex NCCL TensorBoard

Used In Courses

Deep Learning & Neural Networks Computer Vision & Visual AI
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LLM Fine-Tuning Lab

GCP Compute Engine with NVIDIA A100 80 GB
Specs: a2-ultragpu-1g (1x NVIDIA A100 80 GB, 12 vCPU, 170 GB RAM), 1 TB SSD

High-memory GPU environment purpose-built for fine-tuning large language models. Supports full fine-tuning of 7B+ parameter models and parameter-efficient methods (LoRA, QLoRA) for larger models up to 70B.

Pre-installed Tools

Hugging Face Transformers + PEFT Unsloth Axolotl bitsandbytes (4-bit/8-bit quantization) Weights & Biases Flash Attention 2

Used In Courses

NLP & Large Language Model Engineering Generative AI & Prompt Engineering
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LLM Inference & Serving Lab

Vertex AI Endpoints / GKE with GPU node pools
Specs: g2-standard-12 (1x NVIDIA L4, 12 vCPU, 48 GB RAM) for serving

Environment for deploying, serving, and benchmarking LLM inference. Students learn to optimize serving throughput, configure quantized model deployment, and build production API endpoints.

Pre-installed Tools

vLLM Text Generation Inference (TGI) Vertex AI Model Registry GGUF / GPTQ / AWQ quantization FastAPI Locust (load testing)

Used In Courses

NLP & Large Language Model Engineering MLOps & AI Infrastructure
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RAG & Vector Database Lab

GKE + Vertex AI Workbench
Specs: n1-standard-8, Weaviate/ChromaDB on GKE, Cloud Storage for documents

Pre-configured environment for building retrieval-augmented generation systems. Includes vector databases, embedding model APIs, document processing pipelines, and evaluation frameworks.

Pre-installed Tools

ChromaDB / Weaviate / Pinecone LangChain / LlamaIndex Vertex AI Embeddings API Unstructured (document parsing) RAGAS (evaluation)

Used In Courses

NLP & Large Language Model Engineering Generative AI & Prompt Engineering AI for Healthcare & Life Sciences
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Data Engineering Lab

BigQuery + Cloud Composer + Dataflow
Specs: Cloud Composer (managed Airflow), BigQuery sandbox, Dataflow workers, Pub/Sub topics

Full-stack data engineering environment on GCP. Students build batch and streaming data pipelines, work with data lakes, and create feature stores for ML systems.

Pre-installed Tools

BigQuery Apache Airflow (Cloud Composer) Apache Beam (Dataflow) Pub/Sub dbt Cloud Storage (Delta Lake)

Used In Courses

Data Engineering for AI Machine Learning Engineering MLOps & AI Infrastructure
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MLOps & Deployment Lab

Vertex AI Pipelines + GKE + Cloud Build
Specs: GKE cluster (e2-standard-4 nodes), Artifact Registry, Vertex AI Pipelines, Cloud Build triggers

Production ML infrastructure environment. Students build CI/CD pipelines for ML, deploy models to Kubernetes, set up monitoring, and implement A/B testing and canary deployments.

Pre-installed Tools

Vertex AI Pipelines (Kubeflow) MLflow on GKE Seldon Core / KServe Cloud Build + Artifact Registry Prometheus + Grafana Terraform

Used In Courses

MLOps & AI Infrastructure Machine Learning Engineering
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Computer Vision Lab

Vertex AI Workbench with NVIDIA T4/A100
Specs: n1-standard-8 + 1x NVIDIA T4, with Cloud Storage buckets for image/video datasets

GPU-accelerated environment for image and video processing. Pre-loaded with large-scale vision datasets, annotation tools, and state-of-the-art model implementations.

Pre-installed Tools

OpenCV Ultralytics YOLOv8/v9 Detectron2 Segment Anything (SAM) Label Studio (annotation) CVAT

Used In Courses

Computer Vision & Visual AI AI for Healthcare & Life Sciences
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Robotics & Simulation Lab

GCP Compute Engine with NVIDIA GPU + NVIDIA Isaac Sim
Specs: n1-standard-16 + 1x NVIDIA T4, with Isaac Sim / Gazebo pre-installed

High-performance simulation environment for robotics AI. Students work with physics simulators, train RL agents, and develop perception and navigation systems in realistic virtual environments.

Pre-installed Tools

NVIDIA Isaac Sim Gazebo + ROS 2 Stable Baselines3 (RL) Open3D (point clouds) Nav2 (navigation)

Used In Courses

AI for Robotics & Edge Computing
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Edge AI & Optimization Lab

Vertex AI Workbench + Cloud IoT integration
Specs: n1-standard-8 + 1x NVIDIA T4 for TensorRT optimization, plus remote Jetson Orin access

Environment for optimizing and deploying AI models on edge hardware. Includes model compression tools, TensorRT optimization, and remote access to physical NVIDIA Jetson and Coral Edge TPU boards at our Houston lab.

Pre-installed Tools

NVIDIA TensorRT ONNX Runtime TensorFlow Lite Jetson SDK (remote access) Coral Edge TPU compiler

Used In Courses

AI for Robotics & Edge Computing Computer Vision & Visual AI
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Cyber Range Lab

Isolated GCP VPC + Security Command Center
Specs: Isolated VPC with multiple VM instances, packet capture, SIEM stack

Isolated network environment for AI-powered cybersecurity training. Students build intrusion detection systems, analyze malware, and conduct red/blue team exercises in a safe sandbox.

Pre-installed Tools

Elastic SIEM Suricata / Zeek Wireshark MITRE ATT&CK Navigator Custom attack simulation tools

Used In Courses

AI for Cybersecurity
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Medical Imaging & Clinical Data Lab

Vertex AI Workbench with Healthcare API
Specs: n1-standard-8 + 1x NVIDIA T4, Cloud Healthcare API, de-identified DICOM datasets

HIPAA-aligned environment for healthcare AI development. Pre-loaded with de-identified medical imaging datasets (X-ray, CT, MRI), clinical NLP tools, and FHIR-compliant test servers.

Pre-installed Tools

Cloud Healthcare API (DICOM/FHIR) MONAI (medical imaging framework) spaCy + MedCAT (clinical NLP) 3D Slicer OHIF Viewer

Used In Courses

AI for Healthcare & Life Sciences
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Code Server Lab

Browser-based VS Code on Google Cloud
Specs: n1-standard-2 (2 vCPU, 7.5 GB RAM), 60 GB SSD

Full-featured VS Code IDE in your browser — with integrated terminal, file tree, git, extensions, and everything needed for real software engineering work. Pre-loaded with Claude Code CLI, Node.js, Python 3.11, Docker, and Git.

Pre-installed Tools

VS Code (code-server) Claude Code CLI pre-installed Integrated terminal Git + GitHub CLI Node.js 20 + Python 3.11 Docker + Docker Compose

Used In Courses

Claude Code — AI-Assisted Development MLOps & AI Infrastructure Data Engineering for AI
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Want to See the Labs in Action?

Visit our Houston training center for a hands-on tour, or contact us for a virtual demo of any lab environment.