There are plenty of ways to explore Stratosphere. Install it one one or more machines, if you want to get to know the infrastructure. Application developers can also start immediately with their favorite programming language and run programs locally from within their favorite IDE.

Install Stratosphere on one or more computers.
Develop Stratosphere programs with Scala and experience Stratosphere's new concise and flexible programming abstraction. Run and debug your programs locally.
Write Stratosphere programs with the classic Java API. Run and debug your programs locally.