GPU3 back in business

[Predrag Punosevac]

Dougal Sutherland <dougal at gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried for a while. I failed.
> 

Damn this doesn't look good. I guess back to the drawing board. Thanks
for the quick feed back.

Predrag

> Version 0.10.0 fails immediately on build: "The specified --crosstool_top
> '@local_config_cuda//crosstool:crosstool' is not a valid cc_toolchain_suite
> rule." Apparently this is because 0.10 required an older version of bazel (
> https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/4368), and I don't have the
> energy to install an old version of bazel.
> 
> Version 0.11.0rc0 gets almost done and then complains about no such file or
> directory for libcudart.so.7.5 (which is there, where I told tensorflow it
> was...).
> 
> Non-release versions from git fail immediately because they call git -C to
> get version info, which is only in git 1.9 (we have 1.8).
> 
> 
> Some other notes:
> - I made a symlink from ~/.cache/bazel to /home/scratch/$USER/.cache/bazel,
> because bazel is the worst. (It complains about doing things on NFS, and
> hung for me [clock-related?], and I can't find a global config file or
> anything to change that in; it seems like there might be one, but their
> documentation is terrible.)
> 
> - I wasn't able to use the actual Titan X compute capability of 6.1,
> because that requires cuda 8; I used 5.2 instead. Probably not a huge deal,
> but I don't know.
> 
> - I tried explicitly including /usr/local/cuda/lib64 in LD_LIBRARY_PATH and
> set CUDA_HOME to /usr/local/cuda before building, hoping that would help
> with the 0.11.0rc0 problem, but it didn't.