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Ubuntu Setup Notes for Dell 7559 with GTX 960M

scott@ksf16u:~$ lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Skylake Integrated Graphics (rev 06)
scott@ksf16u:~$ lspci | grep -i 3D
02:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] (rev a2)

Objective is to allow NVidia GTX 960M to work as accelerated GPU with Tensorflow 1.8 (current as of 6/10/18). This supports Eager execution for dynamic graphs.

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Paperspace fast.ai Setup

1. Go here to get started: https://github.com/reshamas/fastai_deeplearn_part1/blob/master/tools/paperspace.md

2. See #1 last section on ssh public key setup

#to generate public/private key pair, once per ssh machine...
#accept defaults, enter password optionally
ssh-keygen
#fill in name of public key and public IP

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Setup Notes for Ubuntu 16.04 on Dell 7559 w GPU

Software Setup List

• Chrome
• Setup Nvidia, CUDA, DNN, etc. hardware drivers ( https://gist.github.com/ksferguson/a6eba79df658826cacb629dcc14992ea)
• Anaconda
• Password Safe
• Zotero
• RStudio (optional)
• Atom, Hydrogen, Kernel

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#TODO - convert this into an installation script to help quickly setup the machine post installation


0. Time in Windows gets corrupted when dual boot with Ubuntu. (Note needed on 18.04 LTS)
  First adjust hardware time in BIOS to UTC time
  Windows will automatically recognise it and will display appropriate local time
  For Ubuntu, update /etc/default/rcS and change line with UTC=no to UTC=yes, indicating that BOIS time is UTC.
  Reboot - and check both systems.
0. Open Disks, and edit mount options for C and D drives. Remove check box for Mount at Startup and Show in user interface. Also disable Automatic mount.
0. To speed up ubuntu Updates select the best Server.

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Conda Config for easy Notebook Kernel selection

#allows selection of specific environment in Jupyter notebook
conda install ipykernel
python -m ipykernel install --user --name=<your_env_name> --display-name "Your Env Name"
conda install nb_conda

#example - setup spaCy environment, creating a kernelspec

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GitHub Cheats

misc git commands

cd ~/github
mkdir <repo_dir>
cd <repo_dir>
git init

git clone 

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Ubuntu Cheats

GPU mgmt

lspci | egrep 'VGA|3D'
cat /proc/acpi/bbswitch
sudo tee /proc/acpi/bbswitch <<< ON
lsmod | grep nvidia
modprobe nvidia
nvidiaismi 

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AWS Setup for Remote Streamlit/Python

1. Setup AMI Box for Ubuntu 16.04
2. ssh into remote box
3. Install Streamlit on remote AWS server

pip install streamlit

4. Find AWS external IP