Setting up Azure NC6 for Kaggle Competitions

I have chosen NC6 and Ubuntu 18.04

Install the following using Lambda Stack:
Deep Learning frameworks: TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Caffe, Caffe 2
GPU software: CUDA, cuDNN, NVIDIA drivers
Development tools: git, tmux, screen, vim, emacs, htop, valgrind, build-essential
Using Kaggle's beta API, you can interact with Competitions and Datasets to download data, make submissions, and more via the command line. 

How to settup HTTP Proxy server in Ubuntu

Squid - Proxy Server

Squid is a full-featured web proxy cache server application which provides proxy and cache services for Hyper Text Transport Protocol (HTTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and other popular network protocols. Squid can implement caching and proxying of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) requests and caching of Domain Name Server (DNS) lookups, and perform transparent caching. Squid also supports a wide variety of caching protocols, such as Internet Cache Protocol (ICP), the Hyper Text Caching Protocol (HTCP), the Cache Array Routing Protocol (CARP), and the Web Cache Coordination Protocol (WCCP).

The Squid proxy cache server is an excellent solution to a variety of proxy and caching server needs, and scales from the branch office to enterprise level networks while providing extensive, granular access control mechanisms, and monitoring of critical parameters via the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). When selecting a computer system for use as a dedicated Squid caching proxy server for many users ensure it is configured with a large amount of physical memory as Squid maintains an in-memory cache for increased performance. 

How to install GraspIt!

GraspIt! was created to serve as a tool for grasping research. It is a simulator that can accommodate arbitrary hand and robot designs. It can also load objects and obstacles of arbitrary geometry to populate a complete simulation world. The GraspIt! engine includes a rapid collision detection and contact determination system that allows a user to interactively manipulate a robot or an object and create contacts between them. Once a grasp is created, one of the key features of the simulator is the set of grasp quality metrics. Each grasp is evaluated with numeric quality measures, and visualization methods allow the user to see the weak point of the grasp and create arbitrary 3D projections of the 6D grasp wrench space. Here is the website: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cmatei/graspit/

If you are running Ubuntu 12 you can use this precompiled version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7S255p3kFXNSmFLREd6dWdDOVk/view?pli=1