In-class discussion: Introductory workshop

css · October 21, 2017, 6:04pm

Usually this would be a gaming laptop, like the MSI laptops.

gazay · October 21, 2017, 6:06pm

It will be much more expensive than desktop with same specs. But if you need something portable with good enough GPU (1080) – consider asus rog zephyrus

kora · October 21, 2017, 6:07pm

I have put my AWS id in International-AWS google sheet file.
Do I have to put it on Data Institute DL 1_2 sheet as well? How do I access it?

EricPB · October 21, 2017, 6:08pm

Omar,
I suggest you start with the free credits on cloud services mentioned by Jeremy.
Then if you need more info about building your own DL rig, create a post in the forums and I’ll post a few blog/guide links.

daoist · October 21, 2017, 6:08pm

Can we use google cloud platform for this course? If so can you give us a guide for that?

yinterian · October 21, 2017, 6:08pm

We have different treats for different services. At least sign up for paperspace and AWS.

rishubhkhurana · October 21, 2017, 6:09pm

Omar,

I have been thinking about building my own rig. Could you share the blogs/guides you talked about?

danielfr3 · October 21, 2017, 6:11pm

Paperspace will only charge us if the machine is running, right?

olivier · October 21, 2017, 6:11pm

What’s the billing zip for the visa card? anyone got idea?

gazay · October 21, 2017, 6:11pm

Google platform also has Nvidia GPUs, so I think it is possible to use it on this course. Also, Google provided something like 100-300$ credits when I’ve tried it half of year ago.

DavideBoschetto · October 21, 2017, 6:11pm

This is a nice guide.

j4ck · October 21, 2017, 6:11pm

There is a thread discussing getting set up on google cloud (How to set up env using Google Cloud?), although I think it will be easier to follow along directly with the course if you are using one of the options Jeremy is officialy supporting.

danielfr3 · October 21, 2017, 6:12pm

It’s your address zip code.

yinterian · October 21, 2017, 6:12pm

I am not sure we can use google cloud platform. If you figure out how to use it. Please add that to the forums.

css · October 21, 2017, 6:12pm

I’ve requested a P5000 machine with Paperspace with fast.ai as the message. Been about 10 min, I think. Can’t activate yet. Does it usually take longer?

marvin · October 21, 2017, 6:13pm

Hey folks,
I have created a setup shell script to get a google Cloud instance ready for the course.
The script installs Python 3.6, PIP3, latest Theano, TensorFlow, Keras & PyThorch

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/marvin-hansen/333bf5f5d59fe25c27dc3e056872eb5d

setup.sh

# Preare disk
# Here sdb is the device ID I get from lsblk
# Uncomment if you want to use a shared disk.
# Details on: # https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/add-persistent-disk
# You can add a persistent disk already when creating a computing instnance 

#echo "Format Disk"
#sudo mkfs.ext4 -m 0 -F -E lazy_itable_init=0,lazy_journal_init=0,discard /dev/sdb
#sudo mkdir -p /mnt/disks/data
#echo "Mount Disk"

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It is assumed you have just created an instance with a K80 / P100 GPU and logged in with SSH:
just use:

wget https://gist.github.com/marvin-hansen/333bf5f5d59fe25c27dc3e056872eb5d
chmod + x setup.sh
sudo ./setup.sh

Have fun

KevinB · October 21, 2017, 6:13pm

I chose the M4000 machine and it gave me the billing information.

alessa · October 21, 2017, 6:13pm

Paperspace, Is it suitable for web-cam video streaming? to test our model

yinterian · October 21, 2017, 6:13pm

Yes, but there are some monthly charges, as Jeremy mentioned.

rishubhkhurana · October 21, 2017, 6:13pm

Thanks much!. Will go through it.