Setup: Amazon AWS EC2 with NVIDIA CUDA GPU and Theano

ec2_gpu_theano.md

Setup: Amazon AWS EC2 with NVIDIA CUDA GPU and Theano

2015 Sep 22: nvidia-352 seems to have disappeared from the repos.

1. Spot request Ubuntu Server 14.04; add storage; login with ssh

2. sudo apt-get update

3. sudo apt-get upgrade

4. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

5. sudo apt-get install git gcc g++ gfortran build-essential python-dev python-pip python-matplotlib python-scipy libhdf5-dev linux-image-extra-virtual

6. sudo pip install --upgrade pip

7. sudo reboot

8. sudo pip install theano ipython jupyter

9. install from the deb file as described here

10. load env variables in .bashrc:

    export PATH=/usr/local/cuda/bin:$PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

11. create ~/.theanorc

    [global]
    device=gpu
    floatX=float32
    optimizer_including=cudnn
    

12. Download cudnn.

13. scp cudnn-7.0-linux-x64-v3.0-prod.tgz violinio-nn:/home/ubuntu/

14. tar -xzvf cudnn-7.0-linux-x64-v3.0-prod.tgz

15. Copy cudnn files into /usr/local/cuda/include and lib64.

16. sudo reboot

17. Run this test.

Jupyter

1. jupyter notebook --generate-config
2. change ip address; open_browser = False