Fixes to outdated instructions from Microsoft on installing Tensofflow on Azure
The directions posted here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/uk_faculty_connection/2017/03/27/azure-gpu-tensorflow-step-by-step-setup/ don't quite work out of the box for 2 reasons.
- Where it recommends
git clone https://github.com/leestott/Azure-GPU-Setup.git
cd azure-gpu-setup
those steps fail because of case-sensitive directory names.
- Where it recommends:
./gpu-setup-part2.sh
It requires a NVidia account which is a rather annoying requirement. Instead, following the instructions here: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads the following works without a NVidia account
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1604/x86_64/cuda-repo-ubuntu1604_8.0.61-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1604_8.0.61-1_amd64.deb
- The tensorflow instructions( https://www.tensorflow.org/install/install_linux ) make a reasonable case for recommending virtualenv.