Howto: installation on Windows

For python --version >>> Python 3.6.4 :: Anaconda, Inc.
For which python >>> …/anaconda3/bin/python

Then you are set to go…
Just a side note, can you share your conda list in a seperate TXT file uploaded on some drive and shared here

Re run the server once
And update us here…
(Not sure whether I am helping you…)

New Installation Instructions (updated Jan 26, 2018)
The following instructions are somewhat easier than the preceeding ones, but they have not been tested on windows 10 yet. Should an installation attempt fail, fall back to the older instructions below.
Update: They have actually been successfully tested by Jeremy in person.

A) This tutorial assumes you already have a functional anaconda installation.
Moreover, if you don’t have git installed on your machine, install it by following these instructions: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git33

B) Now, move into a directory where you are comfortable installing the Fastai repo, with its libraries and required packages.
Now you got to clone that repo as follows:

git clone https://github.com/fastai/fastai

C) Once the cloning process finishes, be sure to be in the directory created by git for the Fastai repository, and type:

conda env create -f environment-win.yml

followed by:

activate fastai

This will install the required packages and their dependencies into the fastai environment by leveraging the file environment-win.yml prepared by Fast.ai16.

D) Now, open jupyter:

(fastai)> jupyter notebook

and create a new notebook (or open one of the lessons’ notebooks). Check if an appropriate kernel has been installed by the preceeding command(s). If you find out you don’t have any kernel other than the base one (usually named python 3.6), you got to install it manually:

(fastai)>python -m ipykernel install --user --name fastai --display-name “fastAI custom”

Once you open jupyter, you will select fastAI custom from the available kernels.

That would be all.
Remind that you will probably need to edit some lessons’ notebooks code, or at least the parts where you interact with the filesystem from inside the notebook.
Indeed, Fastai notebooks are written down aiming at linux systems, so if you call, for example, ls -la | head, it won’t work (quite obviously) on Windows.

Accessing the workstation remotely:
one may want to log in into such workstation remotely. In that case, there are various options, for example:

Using remote desktop (mind that it’s slow if you have a slow or high-latency connection)
Just leaving the notebook server on (unpractical: you would not be able to run administration tasks)
Using the Windows Subsystem for Linux, AKA “linux on windows” with tmux (install LoW from windows store)
Using an ssh server (which, contrarily to popular belief, is natively supported by Windows, although a bit clumsy to get working. Google for it).

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pytorch
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So the environment has everything…
Still the error?

Try firing jupyter notebook and redirect to the fast.ai directory’s notebooks

Hi Om,
I am also facing this error

—> 76 from torch._C import *
77
78 all += [name for name in dir(_C)

ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

Are you able to overcome this error?

I am also experiencing similar challenge.
My environment is Windows10, CUDA80_CUDNN51
torch.cuda.is_available()
True
torch.backends.cudnn.enabled
True
torch.cuda.device_count()
1
torch.cuda.current_device()
0
torch.cuda.get_device_capability(0)
(6, 1)
torch.cuda.get_device_name(0)
‘GeForce GTX 1050 Ti’

GPU-Z shows no GPU Load

I wonder if I should insert line
learn.cuda() after
learn = ConvLearner.pretrained(arch, data, precompute=True)

Any suggestions are welcome.
Am just afraid of installingt CUDA90 and CUDNN7 at this time since not sure of Tensorflow support

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I confirm this is resolved for me.

learn.cuda()

seems to have done the trick
epoch time improved to 12 min from 1 hr 24 min

GTX 1050Ti is a Liliput amongst all Goliath that people seem to be using


Cannot seem to solve this problem.

I take back my earlier comment. :sleepy:
inserting line

learn.cuda()

has not solved the problem.
instead a new error:

AttributeError: ‘ConvLearner’ object has no attribute ‘cuda’

Should the model by default use Your GPU.?

Try runningg on some sample tutorial programs to check whether your current configuration is making PyTorch/TF/Keras use your GPU…

I have been trying to find a way around the gpu. I’ll train my networks on another system. Is it possible to follow these tutorials without GPU?

@ecdrid,

It does use GPU…just that the activity seen at GPU-Z suggests that the GPU is starved of data. I think I should play a little with parameters like num_workers in the ImageClassifierData. I also think that a SSD would work better i/o a HDD.
Currently what I see is that GPU load shows a pulse with 90% load and is silent for a few seconds and again gets a spike and so on.

I had the same error.

The only way so solve it, i’ve re-created an Anaconda environment with Pytorch 3.1 and fastai as:
http://www.deeplearningessentials.science/installation/

Now it’s fine.

Same error, no luck, looking for solution. I think the previous version was ok as I successfully built before, but since 1/2 weeks ago I rebuild it on other computer it fails.

FYI I’ve done nearly all development of part 2 so far on my windows laptop (surface book 15 inch) and haven’t had a single issue so far. So Windows support in fastai/pytorch is looking really solid!

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Hi, do you use 16 GB laptop?

I run into MemoryError in lesson 2, with my 16GB laptop, and this post workaround solved this problem.

Words can’t describe how glad I am to hear that :smile:

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No, Abhishek. I tried all way and did not get much help. I am using paperspace until I have working setup.