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This guide shows you how to install PyTorch, a Python framework, on an Ubuntu 20.04 Linode. PyTorch provides support for a variety of math-intensive applications that run on GPU and CPU hardware. Linode offers dedicated CPU instances and GPU instances that you can use to run PyTorch-based projects.

What is PyTorch?

PyTorch allows popular Python-based apps to access GPU hardware to speed up machine learning, AI, and a large number of supported PyTorch ecosystem apps. PyTorch can also be used with CPUs as you set up your applications for use. Moving the application compute logic to a GPU hardware instance allows processing at a far faster output than CPU instances permit. For production workloads, GPU instances provide much higher speed and parallelism benefits.

PyTorch Installation Steps

Prerequisites

The instructions below install PyTorch and Anaconda on an Ubuntu 20.04 instance. For the best results, use a Linode GPU instance with sufficient memory and storage to accomplish your task. Up to 96GB of memory and 7TB of storage are available.

Optimizing a task may also require using external data sources. If using external data sources and data sets, like Linode Object Storage, you should prepare them ahead of setting up your PyTorch GPU instance.

  1. Update your Ubuntu 20.04 instance. The base packages and libraries must be updated first.

     sudo apt update
    
  2. Then the updates must be installed and upgraded.

     sudo apt upgrade
    
  3. If the instance to be used supports GPU/NVIDIA CUDA cores, and the PyTorch applications that you’re using support CUDA cores, install the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit.

     sudo apt install nvidia-cuda-toolkit
    

    For full instructions, see Installing the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit.

Note
The NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit is not needed on CPU-only (non-GPU) instances.

Use Conda to Install PyTorch

Anaconda is a package manager for Python and R. The steps in this section uses Anaconda to install PyTorch.

  1. In your home directory, create a directory to install Anaconda and move into it.

     mkdir anaconda
     cd ~/anaconda
    
  2. Download the Anaconda installation script using wget.

     wget https://repo.anaconda.com/archive/Anaconda3-2020.11-Linux-x86_64.sh
    
  3. Give execute permission to the script.

     chmod +x ./Anaconda3-2020.11-Linux-x86_64.sh
    
  4. Then, execute the script.

     sudo Anaconda3-2020.11-Linux-x86_64.sh
    

    Scroll through the license agreement and agree to it by entering Yes. Indicate the destination directory for Anaconda. The default directory is ~/anaconda.

  5. The installer prompts you to initialize Anaconda3 by running conda init. We recommend entering yes (if you enter no, conda cannot modify your shell scripts).

  6. You are now ready to install PyTorch and PyTorch tools using Anaconda. From the ~/anaconda directory install PyTorch:

     conda install pytorch torchvision torchaudio cudatoolkit=10.2 -c pytorch
    
    Note
    Using Anaconda to install PyTorch, installs the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit. For instances that install CPU-only versions of PyTorch, skip to the Use Pip to Install PyTorch section.

    During installation, you are prompted to install new packages. Type y to install them. Your output displays a similar output:

    Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
    Solving environment: done
    
    ...
    
    The following packages will be UPDATED:
    
      conda                               4.10.1-py38h06a4308_1 --> 4.10.3-py38h06a4308_0
    
    
    Proceed ([y]/n)? y
    
    
    Downloading and Extracting Packages
    openh264-2.1.0       | 722 KB    | ##################################### | 100%
    torchaudio-0.9.1     | 4.4 MB    | ##################################### | 100%
    cudatoolkit-10.2.89  | 365.1 MB  | ##################################### | 100%
    libiconv-1.15        | 721 KB    | ##################################### | 100%
    libidn2-2.3.2        | 81 KB     | ##################################### | 100%
    conda-4.10.3         | 2.9 MB    | ##################################### | 100%
    nettle-3.7.3         | 809 KB    | ##################################### | 100%
    ninja-1.10.2         | 1.4 MB    | ##################################### | 100%
    libunistring-0.9.10  | 536 KB    | ##################################### | 100%
    libtasn1-4.16.0      | 58 KB     | ##################################### | 100%
    torchvision-0.10.1   | 28.7 MB   | ##################################### | 100%
    lame-3.100           | 323 KB    | ##################################### | 100%
    gnutls-3.6.15        | 1.0 MB    | ##################################### | 100%
    pytorch-1.9.1        | 706.8 MB  | ##################################### | 100%
    ffmpeg-4.3           | 9.9 MB    | ##################################### | 100%
    Preparing transaction: done
    Verifying transaction: done
        

Use Pip to Install PyTorch

If you don’t have access to Anaconda, PyTorch can be installed with Python Pip. Learn about Pip and Python programming environments in our Using Pipenv to Manage Python Packages and Versions guide.

  1. To install Pip, use the following command:

     sudo apt install python3-pip
    
  2. Then, use Pip to install PyTorch with CPU support only:

     pip3 install torch==1.9.1+cpu torchvision==0.10.1+cpu -f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/torch_stable.html
    
  3. To install PyTorch using GPU/NVIDIA instances, use the following command:

     pip3 install -f torch torchvision
    

Test your PyTorch Installation

Use the steps below to ensure that you have a working PyTorch installation.

  1. Enter the Python interpreter.

     python3
    

    The prompt should change to the python interpreter:

    >>>
        
  2. Import the PyTorch library functions.

    >>> import torch
    >>>
        
    Note
    If the torch library cannot be found, python returns an error message indicating not-found.
  3. Determine if PyTorch is using a GPU:

    >>>print (torch.cuda.is_available)
    true
        

    If the output returns false, there may be one of several conditions to fix:

    • Ensure that you are using a GPU instance.
    • Check your server logs for errors during the installation of any of the software components, especially PyTorch and the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit
  4. Determine if your server’s CUDA cards were found.

    >>>print (torch.cuda.device_count)
    >>>2
        

    The output should determine the number of physical cards that were found.

Uninstall PyTorch

The steps in this section shows you how to use Anaconda to uninstall PyTorch.

  1. Remove PyTorch from your server with the command below. Any datasets must also be removed independently from removing PyTorch.

     conda remove pytorch
    
    Note
    You can also use the uninstall command to remove PyTorch libraries. Any datasets must also be removed independently from removing PyTorch.
    Important
    When using the uninstall command, the Linode may also be deleted, but it cannot be recovered once deleted.
  2. Remove Anaconda from your system.

     rm -rf ~/anaconda
    
    Important
    The above command is dangerous, and must refer specifically to the directory where anaconda was installed. In the above example, Anaconda was installed in the /home/<user>/anaconda directory. Adjust the command to ensure the directory deleted is indeed the anaconda directory.
  3. Remove the Anaconda installation script:

     rm /home/<user>/Downloads/Anaconda3-2020.11-Linux-x86_64.sh
    

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