ZHAW CAS Machine Intelligence

Module: Deep Learning (2024)

Local Setup

# Versions

Python 3.10 		
Tensorflow 2.16.1 	
CUDA 12.3
CUDNN 8.9.7
skimage 0.24 		
sklearn 1.5.2 		
numpy 1.26.4 	

Official instructions to install Tensorflow: https://www.tensorflow.org/install/pip

Setup Environment

1. Create env

conda create -n cas_main_dl python=3.10
conda activate cas_main_dl

2. Install Tensorflow

# Either: GPU
pip install tensorflow[and-cuda]==2.16.1
# Or: CPU 
pip install tensorflow==2.16.1

3. Other packages

pip install wget notebook matplotlib pandas tqdm ipywidgets scikit-learn scikit-image

For detailed installation instructions, see https://www.tensorflow.org/install/pip

Run directly in Colab

If you have forked the repository, you can run a notebook directly in Google Colab by using a link like this:

https://colab.research.google.com/github/(YOUR_GITHUB_ID)/cas_main_dl_2024/blob/master/01_mnist.ipynb

Prepare Tensorflow with GPU on WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

For Windows (in particular when using a GPU), it is strongly recommended to install and use Tensorflow within WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Without GPU (CPU only), you can still also use native Windows if you want.

Install WSL2, see https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/wsl/install

GPU Support

To enable GPU support, one must also install CUDA Toolkit and CUDNN:

Good summary of needed steps: https://medium.com/@ali.abulhawa/installing-tensorflow-2-16-gpu-on-windows-wsl2-df73ac3446c9

Install CUDA Toolkit

See https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Linux&target_arch=x86_64&Distribution=WSL-Ubuntu&target_version=2.0&target_type=deb_network

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/wsl-ubuntu/x86_64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install cuda-toolkit-12-3

Install CUDNN

- download https://developer.nvidia.com/downloads/compute/cudnn/secure/8.9.7/local_installers/12.x/cudnn-local-repo-ubuntu2204-8.9.7.29_1.0-1_amd64.deb/

- copy file to WSL home dir

sudo dpkg -i cudnn-local-repo-ubuntu2204-8.9.7.29_1.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo cp /var/cudnn-local-repo-ubuntu2204-8.9.7.29/cudnn-local-08A7D361-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libcudnn8=8.9.7.29-1+cuda12.2