Deep learning server configurate IBM POWER8 (ppc64le)

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In this tutorial we show a step to step for install and configure a deep learning server in IBM POWER8.

ibmcom/powerai

• powerai

    >>> docker pull ibmcom/powerai
    >>> nvidia-docker run --name [name-pwai]  --ipc=host --env ACTIVATE=pytorch --env LICENSE=yes ibmcom/powerai:1.5.3-all-ubuntu16.04-py3 tail -f /dev/null
  

Nvidia Docker for POWER8

For docker installation

sudo echo 'deb http://ftp.unicamp.br/pub/ppc64el/ubuntu/16_04/docker-17.06.1-ce-ppc64el/ xenial main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update && apt-get install docker-ce
sudo usermod -aG docker your-username

For Nvidia-docker installation

git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker.git
git checkout 1.0
git fetch --all
cd nvidia-docker
make deb
cd dist
sudo dpkg -i nvidia-docker_1.0.0~rc.3-1_ppc64el.deb

Pulling Nvidia Cuda 8.0 with CuDNN 6

nvidia-docker pull nvidia/cuda-ppc64le:8.0-cudnn6-devel-ubuntu16.04
#Creating a container
nvidia-docker run --name DL -v /home/projects:/data -d nvidia/cuda-ppc64le:8.0-cudnn6-devel-ubuntu16.04 tail -f /dev/null
#Accesing container bash
nvidia-docker exec -ti DL bash

Anaconda3 for POWER8

wget https://repo.continuum.io/archive/Anaconda3-5.0.0-Linux-ppc64le.sh

./Anaconda3-5.0.0-Linux-ppc64le.sh

Pytorch with Anaconda

# https://developer.ibm.com/code/howtos/install-pytorch-on-power    
# https://github.com/ppc64le/build-scripts/blob/master/pytorch/ubuntu_build_intructions.txt

export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$(dirname $(which conda))/../"
conda install numpy pyyaml setuptools cmake cffi
git clone --recursive https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch
cd pytorch
python setup.py install

Pytorch vision

git clone https://github.com/pytorch/vision.git    
cd vision    
python setup.py install

OpenCV for Power 8

wget https://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/linux-ppc64le/opencv-3.1.0-np112py36_2.tar.bz2
mkdir opencv-3.1.0-py36
cd opencv-3.1.0-py36
tar -jxvf ../opencv-3.1.0-np112py36_2.tar.bz2
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/home/<your-username>/opencv-3.1.0-py36/lib/python3.6/site-packages

PowerAI release 4 provides software packages for several Deep Learning frameworks and tools

https://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/server/POWER/Linux/mldl/ubuntu/README.html

• Bazel
• Caffe - BVLC, IBM, and NVIDIA variants
• Chainer
• DIGITS
• NCCL
• OpenBLAS
• OpenMPI - with CUDA enablement
• TensorFlow
• Theano
• Torch

Blogs

• https://developer.ibm.com/code/howtos/install-pytorch-on-power
• https://www.ibm.com/us-en/
• https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-2e95-46f2-817d-44a4f27eba32/entry/Using_a_GPU_in_a_Docker_Container_on_POWER?lang=en
• https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-2e95-46f2-817d-44a4f27eba32/entry/Building_Torch_on_OpenPOWER_Linux_Systems?lang=en
• https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-2e95-46f2-817d-44a4f27eba32/entry/Building_DIGITS_on_OpenPOWER_Linux_Systems?lang=en
• https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-2e95-46f2-817d-44a4f27eba32/entry/Building_TensorFlow_on_OpenPOWER_Linux_Systems?lang=en
• https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-2e95-46f2-817d-44a4f27eba32/entry/Building_Caffe_on_OpenPOWER_Systems?lang=en