This post is the needed update to a post I wrote nearly a year ago (June 2018) with essentially the same title. This time I have presented more details in an effort to prevent many of the “gotchas” that some people had with the old guide. This is a detailed guide for getting the latest TensorFlow working with GPU acceleration without needing to do a CUDA install.
I have updated my TensorFlow performance testing. This post contains up-to-date versions of all of my testing software and includes results for 1 to 4 RTX and GTX GPU’s. It gives a good comparative overview of most of the GPU’s that are useful in a workstation intended for machine learning and AI development work.
I’ve done some testing with 2 NVIDIA RTX Titan GPU’s running machine learning jobs with TensorFlow. The RTX Titan is a great card but there is good news and bad news.
There has been some concern about Peer-to-Peer (P2P) on the NVIDIA RTX Turing GPU’s. P2P is not available over PCIe as it has been in past cards. It is available with very good performance when using NVLINK with 2 cards. I did some testing to see how the performance compared between the GTX 1080Ti and RTX 2080Ti. There were some interesting results!
More Machine Learning testing with TensorFlow on the NVIDIA RTX GPU’s. This post adds dual RTX 2080 Ti with NVLINK and the RTX 2070 along with the other testing I’ve recently done. Performance in TensorFlow with 2 RTX 2080 Ti’s is very good! Also, the NVLINK bridge with 2 RTX 2080 Ti’s gives a bidirectional bandwidth of nearly 100 GB/sec!
NVLINK is one of the more interesting features of NVIDIA’s new RTX GPU’s. In this post I’ll take a look at the performance of NVLINK between 2 RTX 2080 GPU’s along with a comparison against single GPU I’ve recently done. The testing will be a simple look at the raw peer-to-peer data transfer performance and a couple of TensorFlow job runs with and without NVLINK.
Are the NVIDIA RTX 2080 and 2080Ti good for machine learning?
Yes, they are great! The RTX 2080 Ti rivals the Titan V for performance with TensorFlow. The RTX 2080 seems to perform as well as the GTX 1080 Ti (although the RTX 2080 only has 8GB of memory). I’ve done some testing using **TensorFlow 1.10** built against **CUDA 10.0** running on **Ubuntu 18.04** with the **NVIDIA 410.48 driver**.
A Quantum Mechanics problem coded up in PyTorch?! Sure! Why not? I’ll explain just enough of the Quantum Mechanics and Mathematics to make the problem and solution (kind of) understandable. The focus is on how easy it is to implement in PyTorch. This first post will give some explanation of the problem and do some testing of a couple of the formulas that will need to be coded up.
PyTorch is a relatively new ML/AI framework. It combines some great features of other packages and has a very “Pythonic” feel. It has excellent and easy to use CUDA GPU acceleration. It is fun to use and easy to learn. read on for some reasons you might want to consider trying it. I’ve got some unique example code you might find interesting too.
In this post I go through a simple modification to the VGG Image Annotator that adds easy to use buttons for adding labels to image object bounding-boxes. It is very fast way to do what could be a tedious machine learning data preparation task.
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