DISCO provides an entire distributed computing architecture conveniently as a service. The dashboard takes the requirements over an easy-to-use web interface and the backend creates the entire cluster with the chosen distributed computing engines ready to use. Doing Big Data analysis can’t get any easier than that!
The only thing you need is a provisioned OpenStack installation. You can install DISCO either on a Virtual Machine on that same cluster or on a dedicated physical machine. You can even install the dashboard separately from the backend - it’s totally up to you!