Compile TensorFlow Serving with CUDA support (October 2017) needs bazel 5.3 , cuda 8 , cudnn 7 # UNSUPPORTED -> https://gist.github.com/jorgemf/c791841f769bff96718fd54bbdecfd4e

compile_tensorflow_serving.sh

#!/bin/bash

TENSORFLOW_COMMIT=9e76bf324f6bac63137a02bb6e6ec9120703ea9b # August 16, 2017
TENSORFLOW_SERVING_COMMIT=267d682bf43df1c8e87332d3712c411baf162fe9 # August 18, 2017
MODELS_COMMIT=78007443138108abf5170b296b4d703b49454487 # July 25, 2017

if [ -z $TENSORFLOW_SERVING_REPO_PATH ]; then
	TENSORFLOW_SERVING_REPO_PATH="serving"
fi
INITIAL_PATH=$(pwd)
export TF_NEED_CUDA=1
export TF_NEED_GCP=1
export TF_NEED_JEMALLOC=1
export TF_NEED_HDFS=0
export TF_NEED_OPENCL=0
export TF_NEED_MKL=0
export TF_NEED_VERBS=0
export TF_NEED_MPI=0
export TF_NEED_GDR=0
export TF_ENABLE_XLA=0
export TF_CUDA_VERSION=8.0
export TF_CUDNN_VERSION=7
export TF_CUDA_CLANG=0
export TF_CUDA_COMPUTE_CAPABILITIES="3.5,5.2,6.1"
CUDA_PATH="/usr/local/cuda"
if [ ! -d $CUDA_PATH ]; then
	CUDA_PATH="/opt/cuda"
fi
export CUDA_TOOLKIT_PATH=$CUDA_PATH
export CUDNN_INSTALL_PATH=$CUDA_PATH
export GCC_HOST_COMPILER_PATH=$(which gcc-5 || which gcc)
export PYTHON_BIN_PATH=$(which python)
export CC_OPT_FLAGS="-march=native"

function python_path {
  "$PYTHON_BIN_PATH" - <<END
from __future__ import print_function
import site
import os

try:
  input = raw_input
except NameError:
  pass

python_paths = []
if os.getenv('PYTHONPATH') is not None:
  python_paths = os.getenv('PYTHONPATH').split(':')
try:
  library_paths = site.getsitepackages()
except AttributeError:
 from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib
 library_paths = [get_python_lib()]
all_paths = set(python_paths + library_paths)

paths = []
for path in all_paths:
  if os.path.isdir(path):
    paths.append(path)

if len(paths) == 1:
  print(paths[0])
else:
  ret_paths = ",".join(paths)
  print(ret_paths)
END
}

export PYTHON_LIB_PATH=$(python_path)


cd $TENSORFLOW_SERVING_REPO_PATH
cd tensorflow
git reset --hard
git fetch
cd ../tf_models
git reset --hard
git fetch
cd ..
git reset --hard
git fetch
git submodule update --init --recursive
git checkout $TENSORFLOW_SERVING_COMMIT
git submodule update --init --recursive
cd tf_models
git checkout $MODELS_COMMIT
cd ../tensorflow
git submodule update --init --recursive
git checkout $TENSORFLOW_COMMIT
git submodule update --init --recursive
wget -O /tmp/0002-TF-1.3-CUDA-9.0-and-cuDNN-7.0-support.patch https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/files/1253794/0002-TF-1.3-CUDA-9.0-and-cuDNN-7.0-support.patch.txt
git apply /tmp/0002-TF-1.3-CUDA-9.0-and-cuDNN-7.0-support.patch
./configure
cd ..

# force to use gcc-5 to compile CUDA
if [ -e $(which gcc-5) ]; then
	sed -i.bak 's/"gcc"/"gcc-5"/g' tensorflow/third_party/gpus/cuda_configure.bzl
fi

## Error fix.  Ref: https://github.com/tensorflow/serving/issues/327
sed -i.bak 's/external\/nccl_archive\///g' tensorflow/tensorflow/contrib/nccl/kernels/nccl_manager.h
sed -i.bak 's/external\/nccl_archive\///g' tensorflow/tensorflow/contrib/nccl/kernels/nccl_ops.cc
## Error fix. Ref: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/12979
sed -i '\@https://github.com/google/protobuf/archive/0b059a3d8a8f8aa40dde7bea55edca4ec5dfea66.tar.gz@d' tensorflow/tensorflow/workspace.bzl


cd ..
bazel build -c opt --copt=-mavx --copt=-mavx2 --copt=-mfma --copt=-mfpmath=both --copt=-msse4.2 --config=cuda -k --jobs 6 --verbose_failures //tensorflow_serving/model_servers:tensorflow_model_server
# build fails, apply eigen patch
wget -O /tmp/eigen.f3a22f35b044.cuda9.diff https://storage.googleapis.com/tf-performance/public/cuda9rc_patch/eigen.f3a22f35b044.cuda9.diff
cd -P bazel-out/../../../external/eigen_archive
patch -p1 < /tmp/eigen.f3a22f35b044.cuda9.diff
cd -
wget -O /tmp/eigen.f3a22f35b044.cuda9.diff https://storage.googleapis.com/tf-performance/public/cuda9rc_patch/eigen.f3a22f35b044.cuda9.diff
# build again
bazel build -c opt --copt=-mavx --copt=-mavx2 --copt=-mfma --copt=-mfpmath=both --copt=-msse4.2 --config=cuda -k --jobs 6 --verbose_failures //tensorflow_serving/model_servers:tensorflow_model_server

cd $INITIAL_PATH

@jorgemf does cudnn 7 and cuda 8 work?

I don't support this anymore. I have created a Dockerfile to compile it, so all dependencies are there and probably people will have less issues compiling it: https://gist.github.com/jorgemf/c791841f769bff96718fd54bbdecfd4e