| #!/bin/bash | |
| # install CUDA Toolkit v8.0 | |
| # instructions from https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads (linux -> x86_64 -> Ubuntu -> 16.04 -> deb (network)) | |
| CUDA_REPO_PKG="cuda-repo-ubuntu1604_8.0.61-1_amd64.deb" | |
| wget http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1604/x86_64/${CUDA_REPO_PKG} | |
| sudo dpkg -i ${CUDA_REPO_PKG} | |
| sudo apt-get update | |
| sudo apt-get -y install cuda |
Building Tensorflow from source on Ubuntu 16.04LTS for maximum performance:
TensorFlow is now distributed under an Apache v2 open source license on GitHub.
On Ubuntu 16.04LTS+:
Step 1. Install NVIDIA CUDA:
To use TensorFlow with NVIDIA GPUs, the first step is to install the CUDA Toolkit as shown:
This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.
Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:
getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
// the rest of your code goes here.