Which AWS AMI to choose for the course?

Part 1 (2018)
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I am a bit confused between which ami to choose for the Part 1v2 course. Are we supposed to follow the same instructions as that of previous part 1?

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Have a look at the introductory workshop…(around last 30mins)…

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Jeremy had mentioned that he was going to use a custom one, but AWS DL AMI (ubuntu) looks pretty good too.

I think we’ll get to know during the live stream.

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Ya, as far as i remember he said the same thing. Thanks. Maybe to waiting till first live stream is a better option to setup aws completely.

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I have the same question and am also waiting for this to be clarified, perhaps in the first live stream.

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We’ll start on Monday simply using crestle.com, to keep things simple. For week 2, I’ll provide either a script to run on AWS’s DL AMI and/or an AMI built on top of it.

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@jeremy Nvidia seems to have recently created an AMI (Nvidia Volta Deep Learning AMI) for EC2 and other cloud instances, using docker. Requires a (free) registration with Nvidia GPU Cloud. It has all the deep learning libraries available, and is tested for P3s. Details here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/gpu-cloud/

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A bash script would be awesome :slight_smile: Provides insights into how to set up a DL box and can be a great starting point for those who like to tinker around.

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so,@init_27 there is no need to set up the instances now.

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Yes.
I still tried to tinker around with a few instances just to get the hang of AWS.
I feel I need to learn a lot, I’m still a novice Python programmer compared to everyone.

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@init_27,did you finalize the laptop.actually i too interested in buying a laptop to progress further in the domain of deep learning and i know for a fact with a core i3 processor and 4 gb memory ,i may not able to move further.therefore could you please guide me to whatever you discover for purchasing a good laptop for deep learning,which is available in India too.i’ll be eagerly awaiting for your answer.

thanks in advance

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When setting up my DL instance on crestle, do I need to install anaconda on it with python 3.6? Instance has a default python version of 2.7

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Python 3.6 as needed by the fast.ai lib.

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AWS DL AMI has python 3.5 as said by the lady teacher in the last 30 mins of the workshop. She said that Amazon guys have a very strange choice in libraries and she had to install a bunch of things to get everything working.
So we should no try AWS DL AMI

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I think I created a public AMI ami-b71abdce with everything needed for this course (libraries, data) and already on the volume. You can spin up a spot instance, ssh into it, run the jupyter notebook using the provided script (execute `./start-jupyter-notebook’ from terminal) and you should be able to run the entire first lesson notebook.

But, as I only have my AWS account, not sure if the ami is really accessible to anyone else :slight_smile:

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Which region did you create the AMI in @radek ? It will only be accessible in the same region.

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Ah I see. I am using eu-west-1.