How to use GPU of MX150 with Tensorflow 1.8 CUDA 9.2 (Phase 4: Installation GPU Tensorflow package and execution of the first neural network in python program execution)
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In the serie, “How to use GPU with Tensorflow 1.8 and CUDA 9.2”, we are now in the final phase. This step focusses on the installation of GPU Tensorflow 1.8 and the execution of a python program based on the .
The compilation of Tensorflow is not simple. So, I recommend to reserve around 2 hours to make this task. The compilation of the software is structured into 4 steps:
- Step 1: Installation of the wheel package created in the previous phase and the keras library.
- Step 2: Creation of the python program using the Keras library (with the configuration of Tensorflow backend).
- Step 3: Execution of the program and confirmation that the CUDA cores of the graphical card.
Step 1: Installation of the wheel package and the Keras library
In the last post, the compilation of the tensorflow code with the cuda library has generated a the GPU Tensorflow wheel package. So, you can install the package with the command
pip3 install keras pip3 install tensorflow-1.8.0-cp36-cp36m-linux_x86_64.whl pip3 install numpy
Step 2: Creation of a python program using Keras (backend Tensorflow)
To create a python program, I followed the post of
Develop Your First Neural Network in Python With Keras Step-By-Step
Based on this post, I created my first neural network with Keras on python and save it with the name first_model_keras.py
Step 3: Execution of the program
The step 3 will execute the python program and validate that the cuda cores of the graphical card are used.
Open a terminal and execute the following command in the folder of the python program
python3 first_model_keras.py
In another terminal, execute the command to execute every second nvidia-smi to display the statistics of the nvidia card.
watch -n 1 nvidia-smi
and here is a video showing the results.
You observe that a python program has appeared at the level of the statistics of the nvidia cards and the GPU cores are used at around 35%
Conclusion:
This post is the last post of the initiative “How to use GPU with Tensorflow 1.8 and CUDA 9.2”. I hope that you had the same fun than me for the creation of these posts.
Feel free to give comments or ask questions and I will try to answer you. It’s possible that I forgot a step in the explanation seeing that I made the exercise in August. If you have any problem, just give me a comment and I will answer you and adapt the post.
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is there any tutorial to install this in a windows platform?
Hello Trix,
Sorry for the delay of my answer. I’m forced to put this blog in pause due to other activities
I advise you to go to the web site : https://www.pytorials.com/install-tensorflow-gpu-windows/ https://www.pytorials.com/install-tensorflow-gpu-windows/ https://www.pytorials.com/install-tensorflow-gpu-windows/
I haven’t tested yet but it seems ok
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