Please forgive what may be an insane question.
My setup: two machines, one with a GTX1080, one with an RX Vega 64. Retraining/fine tuning a bvlc_googlenet model on the GTX1080.
If I build Caffe for the Vega 64, then can I take a snapshot from the GTX1080 machine and restart training on the Vega 64? Would this work in the sense that the training would continue in a normal manner?
What if I moved the GTX1080 snapshot to a Volta V100 in AWS? Would this work?
I know Caffe will to some degree abstract the hardware, but I don't know how well it can do that. I need the GTX 1080 for something else...
Thanks in advance!
To my knowledge, this should work without a problem. Weight files and training snapshots are just blobs of numbers, that you should be able to resume on other hardware (e.g. CPU/GPU), a different machine with a different operating system, or between 32 and 64 bit processes.
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I'm on an Ubuntu 19.10 machine (with KDE desktop environment) with 8GB of RAM, an i5 8250u and an MX130 gpu (2GB VRAM), running a Jupyter Notebook with tensorflow-gpu.
I was just training some models to test their memory usage, and I can't see any sense in what I'm looking at. I used KSysGUARD and NVIDIA System Monitor (https://github.com/congard/nvidia-system-monitor) to monitor my system during training.
As I hit "train", on NVIDIA S.M. show me that memory usage is 100% (or near 100% like 95/97%) the GPU usage is fine.
Always in NVIDIA S.M., I look at the processes list and "python" occupies only around 60MB of vram space.
In KSysGUARD, python's memory usage is always around 700mb.
There might be some explanation for that, the problem is that the gpu's memory usage hits 90% with a model with literally 2 neurons (densely connected of course xD), just like a model with 200million parameters does. I'm using a batch size of 128.
I thought around that mess, and if I'm not wrong, a model with 200million parameters should occupy 200000000*4bytes*128 bytes, which should be 1024gb.
That means I'm definitely wrong on something, but I'm too selfless to keep that riddle for me, so I decided to give you the chance to solve this ;D
PS: English is not my main language.
Tensorflow by default allocates all available VRAM in the target GPU. There is an experimental feature called memory growth that let's you control that, basically stops the initialization process from allocating all VRAM and does it when there is a need for it.
https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/config/experimental/set_memory_growth
Could anyone suggest a classification model with inference time may be less than a second?
I have trained mobile net and squeeze net but both take around 2 secs for a single image inference.
Any suggestions would be really helpful.Thanks in advance.
The speed depends on the hardware specifications. To run this model even faster, you can try installing 'OpenVino' (works only for intel hardware), which helps to run the model 3x faster. Refer the below comparison from Intel.
Performance improvement using Openvino software
You have free version of 'Openvino' for CPU. This software works even for GPU inbuilt devices.
Check more details in the below link:
https://software.intel.com/en-us/openvino-toolkit
Based on this github link https://github.com/dennybritz/cnn-text-classification-tf , I want to classified my datasets on Ubuntu-16.04 on GPU.
For running on GPU, I've been changed line 23 on text_cnn.py to this : with tf.device('/gpu:0'), tf.name_scope("embedding"):
my first dataset for train phase has 9000 documents and it's size is about 120M and
second one for train has 1300 documents and it's size is about 1M.
After running on my Titan X server with GPU, I have got errors.
Please guide me, How can I solve this issue?
Thanks.
You are getting Out of Memory error, so first thing to try is smaller batch size
(default is 64). I would start with:
./train.py --batch_size 32
Most of the memory is used to hold the embedding parameters and convolution parameters. I would suggest reduce:
EMBEDDING_DIM
NUM_FILTERS
BATCH_SIZE
try embedding_dim=16, batch_size=16 and num_filters=32, if that works, increase them 2x at a time.
Also if you are using docker virtual machine to run tensorflow, you might be limited to use only 1G of memory by default though you have 16G memory in your machine. see here for more details.
I am thinking of building a convolutional neural network as a tracking system application.I get the feeling that all the deep network applications require the use of GPUs. Is it necessary to use GPUs in a task like mine? What are the minimum PC requirements I should have in my laptop ?
It all depends on the size and depth of your CNN. If your CNN has one convolution layer, and one fully connected layer, and input images are 64x64, you will be able to train your network on your Laptop in a reasonable time. If you use GoogLeNet with hundred of layers, and train on the entire ImageNet set, than even with a video card it will take you a week, so on a CPU it will never finish training.
For most practical applications, however, it is desirable to have a GPU to train a convolution network. Note that on AWS you can get GPU-enabled instances for a rather reasonable price, especially if you get spot instances, so you don't necessarily need to have a GPU locally.
Last note: most of the frameworks (theano, torch, caffe, mxnet, tensorflow) allow you to execute the same model on CPU and on GPU with minor or no modifications to the code, so you can prototype locally on the CPU with a small set of images, and then when your model works, train it on AWS on a GPU instance.
I'm preparing an acceptance test for a new machine with Nvidia graphics cards and I'd like a simple CUDA program that will fully exercise the GPU for a full day. The intent is to generate large amounts of heat and ensure the new machine is stable under the load. I'd like the code to be very easy to compile and run (no dependencies, no large input data sets), and also very easy to verify (small amounts of output). Also, I'd like it to be command-line only, no GUI (the test will have to be automated).
I was originally thinking of repeatedly running Vector Dot Products of large vectors. However, that's mostly memory-intensive. So if the GPUs are constantly waiting on memory accesses, then they probably aren't generating as much heat as they could.
I'm running on a CentOS Linux machine.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
You didn't mention which OS you are on.
Ideally, you would want to stress the floating point units, the logic/integer units, the GPU memory, the GPU voltage regulators (VRMs) and the main PSU. I don't think there is any single utility out there that does that.
Memory:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cudagpumemtest/
Integer (?):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cudalucas/
PSU and VRMs (In the past, this program could cause GPUs to run out-of-spec, breaking the card. I don't think that's the case anymore):
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/