ericfourrier

# Swap should take place on the Instance Storage (ephemeral) disk and not an EBS device. 
# Check that your ephemeral storage is mounted sudo mount /dev/xvda2 /mnt
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/swapfile bs=1M count=16348 # create 16G swap
# Permission
sudo chown root:root /mnt/swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /mnt/swapfile
# Activate swapfile
sudo mkswap /mnt/swapfile
sudo swapon /mnt/swapfile
# add this to /etc/fstab

ericfourrier

# Download cudnn from https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn

# untar archive 
tar -zxf cudnn-7.5-linux-x64-v5.1.tgz # cuda 7.5 cudnn 5.1

sudo cp -P include/cudnn.h /usr/include
sudo cp -P lib64/libcudnn* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
sudo chmod a+r /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcudnn*