Lesson 3 on a GTX 1080 (8G) + tf allow_growth=True: final_model.fit_generator -> OOM [RESOLVED: use Theano backend, instead of Tensorflow]

[gai (Sven)]

Oh, so I configured keras incorrectly to use tensorflow?
I am retrying now using the ~/.keras/keras.json described here:

Making your own server

I set up my own Ubuntu 16.4 machine with a GTX 1060 -6GB (i wish i had gotten the 1070 with 8GB since it ran out of memory on the first lesson) After installing Ubuntu my setup was roughly the following: Install CUDA 8.0 and cuDNN https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn ( You will need to register) Anaconda and Python sudo apt install unzip wget https://repo.continuum.io/archive/Anaconda2-4.2.0-Linux-x86_64.sh bash Anaconda2-4.2.0-Linux-x86_64.sh co…