Which term refers to the environment and services used to run computational experiments?

• A. External Infrastructure
• B. Compute Budget
• C. Public Output
• D. Jupyter Notebook

Answer: (A)

External Infrastructure is the term for the environment and services used to run computational experiments. It encompasses the hardware (such as GPUs or CPUs, memory, and storage), the software stack, cloud or cluster services, data transfer, and orchestration tools that together enable code to run, scale, and reproduce results. Planning experiments around this infrastructure helps ensure you have enough compute, proper dependencies, and reliable access to data and resources. The other options miss the broader scope: a compute budget describes limits or costs rather than the actual environment; public output refers to the results you share after running experiments; and a Jupyter Notebook is a popular interactive interface, not the entire environment and services used to execute the work.