Technology

Academic Technology Equipment Loans (Laptops and Audio/Visual)

Need a laptop? The Academic Technology Equipment Loaning offers matriculated students an opportunity to borrow a PC or Apple laptops and a variety of audio/visual equipment. 

GPU Machines

The Applied Data Science department has 22 Alienware Aurora R15 Desktops with AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950, NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4090 with 24 GB GDDR6X, 128GB memory, etc. This GPU is 3x faster than the Colab tier GPU T4. GPU machines can be reserved by contacting the Department of Applied Data Science at ms-data-analytics@sjsu.edu. 

GPU Machines

Minimum Computer Configuration for MSDA Curriculum

Due to the unique nature of the MSDA curriculum, each student should be able to access a laptop computer with the minimum configuration of

  • CPU: Core i7 (preferred) or Core i5
  • RAM: 16G Bytes
  • Storage: SSD 256G Bytes (highly recommended)
  • Screen size: 15” or above

This computer will enable you to download the necessary environments, tools, applications and course materials to engage in classroom exercises, in-class quizzes, midterm and final exams, as well as class and master projects.