Tensorflow with gpu

Pre

• check device

~$ lspci | grep NVIDIA
81:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 [GeForce GT 610] (rev a1)
81:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1)

• check driver version

~$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  387.26  Thu Nov  2 21:20:16 PDT 2017
GCC version:  gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9)

• install cuda 9.0 with patches

https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Linux&target_arch=x86_64&target_distro=Ubuntu&target_version=1604&target_type=deblocal

• then

sudo apt-get install cuda-9-0

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html#post-installation-actions

~$ export PATH=/usr/local/cuda-9.0/bin${PATH:+:${PATH}}
~$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda-9.0/lib64${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}}

~$ nvidia-smi 
Thu Apr 26 12:39:25 2018       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 387.26                 Driver Version: 387.26                    |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce GT 610      Off  | 00000000:81:00.0 N/A |                  N/A |
| N/A   31C    P8    N/A /  N/A |    148MiB /   956MiB |     N/A      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0                    Not Supported                                       |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

• install tensorflow

~$ sudo pip3 install --ignore-installed --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/gpu/tensorflow_gpu-1.7.0-cp35-cp35m-linux_x86_64.whl

• testing

~$ python3
Python 3.5.2 (default, Nov 23 2017, 16:37:01) 
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> import tensorflow as tf
>>> hello = tf.constant('Hello, World!')                                                                                                                                                                            
>>> sess = tf.Session()                                                                                                                                                                                                 
2018-04-26 13:00:19.050625: I tensorflow/core/platform/cpu_feature_guard.cc:140] Your CPU supports instructions that this TensorFlow binary was not compiled to use: AVX2 FMA                                           
2018-04-26 13:00:19.181581: I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:1344] Found device 0 with properties:                                                                                                             
name: GeForce GT 610 major: 2 minor: 1 memoryClockRate(GHz): 1.62                                                                                                                                                                
pciBusID: 0000:81:00.0                                                                                                                                                                                                           
totalMemory: 956.50MiB freeMemory: 631.69MiB                                                                                                                                                                                              
2018-04-26 13:00:19.181648: I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:1394] Ignoring visible gpu device (device: 0, name: GeForce GT 610, pci bus id: 0000:81:00.0, compute capability: 2.1) with Cuda compute capability 2.1. The minimum required Cuda capability is 3.5.                                                                                                                                                                                                              
2018-04-26 13:00:19.181669: I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:911] Device interconnect StreamExecutor with strength 1 edge matrix:                                                                                       
2018-04-26 13:00:19.181683: I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:917]      0                                                                                                                                                       
2018-04-26 13:00:19.181695: I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:930] 0:   N                                                                                                                                                       
>>> print(sess.run(hello))                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
b'Hello, World!'

• Supported cards:

https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus

• As a quickfix had to install CuDNN 7.0.5 instead of latest:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49960132/cudnn-library-compatibility-error-after-loading-model-weights