Deep Learning rig setup - Ubuntu 19.10 or 20.04

• Resources: one and two

Ubuntu 19.10 installation

Purge Nvidia drivers

• sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
• sudo lshw -c video | grep 'configuration'
• sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-*

Disable Nouveau drivers (open source Nvidia GPU drivers)

• Insert

  blacklist nouveau blacklist lbm-nouveau options nouveau modeset=0 alias nouveau off alias lbm-nouveau off

  into the file

  /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

• sudo reboot

Find recommended drivers

ubuntu-drivers devices

Download and install the recommended drivers

• Download the recommended drivers as per above step from here.

• chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.64.run

• sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.64.run
• nvidia-smi

Install CUDA as per Nvidia driver version:

• Confirm CUDA version from here.
• wget http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/10.1/Prod/local_installers/cuda_10.1.243_418.87.00_linux.run
• chmod +x cuda_10.1.243_418.87.00_linux.run
• First way to install - sudo ./cuda_10.1.243_418.87.00_linux.run
• Second - sudo apt install nvidia-cuda-toolkit
• sudo reboot
• nvcc -V, the result should be CUDA version you just installed.

CuDNN installation

• Download appropriate file from here.
• tar -zxvf cudnn-10.1-linux-x64-v7.6.5.32.tgz
• sudo cp -P cuda/lib64/* /usr/local/cuda-10.1/lib64/
• sudo cp cuda/include/* /usr/local/cuda-10.1/include
• sudo chmod a+r /usr/local/cuda-10.1/include/cudnn.h

Ubuntu customization

1. Enable Gnome extensions from here.
   • Install Clipboard Indicator
   • Install “Sound Input & Output Device chooser”
   • Use dconf-editor
     • sudo apt install dconf-editor
     • Open dconf-editor
     • Goto path org/gnome/shell/extensions/dash-to-dock

     • Customize “click action” to minimize

       customize “Running indicaor style” to Dashes.

2. Customizing Terminal profiles-
   • Gogh terminal - Github
     • Install - bash -c "$(wget -qO- https://git.io/vQgMr)"
     • It gives choices of 185 color schemes - I only tried 19: Brogrammer as of now.
     • It’ll create profile for you, restart the terminal and see preferences
3. Edit how my bash promt looks like.