Instructions for setting up an HDInsight 3.0 cluster to use with DryadLINQ. If you don't already have one, set up an Azure subscription from the Azure welcome website http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/ _blank In order for the DryadLINQ submission process to work smoothly, you must install and configure the Azure powershell tools http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/install-configure-powershell/ _blank . In the "How to: Connect to your subscription" item, follow the instructions under "Use the certificate method." Ensure that your environment is correctly setup by running Get-AzureSubscription and verifying that your subscription has information identifying the management certificate. If you don't already have one, you need to create an HDInsight 3.0 cluster http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/hdinsight-get-started-30/ _blank . (Note that the page title talks about "Hadoop 2.2"---this is correct, since HDInsight 3.0 uses Hadoop 2.2.) Make a note of the default storage account and container for your cluster if you want to use the sample program, since it reads from data stored in that container.