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Using CSC Taito GPU

HenglinShi edited this page Nov 1, 2017 · 18 revisions

Activating Your CSC Account

Login to CSC services using university authentications

https://sui.csc.fi/web/guest

Then input your university account and password, and login.

Activating your account

In your dashborad

Click the Sign Up in the red box. After submitting your application, the "Add Service" icon will disappear. Then you are able to login to the CSC server.

Login to Taito-GPU server

Using Putty

Open you putty

Then click Open and give the authentication information you just signed up

Using Graphical Interface with X11

Modules in the Taito-GPU

Various software has been prepared by the server and well packed so that you can use them easily. e.g.

module avail Then you will see available packages, like

You can see caffe has already been installed.

If you want to clean packages have been loaded, you can use ´module purge´

if you want to load a specific package, you can use ´module load caffe´ You can use ´which caffe´ to check the caffe you have loaded. This caffe was built with OpenCV 2.4.10 and Python 3.4.5. But you can build your own caffe if you want to use Python 2.7. We will talk about this later.

Build your own caffe based on Python 2.7

Load python environment ´module load python-env/2.7.10´

Check right python has been loaded ´python -V´

Down load your own caffe and place it in the right place Modifying the Makefile.config

´make all -j32´ ´make pycaffe´

Using caffe 1

The CSC taito-GPU server has already provided

module purge module avail module avail ##e.g. module avail caffe module load caffe

This caffe was built with OpenCV 2.4.10 and Python 3.4.5. If you want build your own caffe based on Python 2.7

module purge module load python-env/2.7.10 python -V

Down load your own caffe and place it in the right place

How to use Nsight on Taito-GPU

Requirements: Putty, Xming

Configure Xming and starting Xming Server

Configure X11 forwarding for Putty

Then you connect the Taito-GPU server with Putty again. Then put following command in the terminal

´srun -n 1 -N 1 --gres=gpu:k80:1 --x11=first -p gpu nsight´ Then a Nsight window will appear on your screen.

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