KDD 2016 Notes
Workshop Day: 14 August 2016 Missed the keynote as the earliest BART reached Powell St by 8:45. Wanted to attend the whole of the time-series workshop but there were other interesting things that had my attention. Nevertheless, anyone interested in time-series...Getting Tensorflow to work with GPU NVidia GTX 1080 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
After jumping through many hoops, my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with NVidia GTX 1080 runs tensorflow 0.9 with GPU support. !! At the time of this writing, a simple “pip install tensorflow” does not get your the goodies of the GPU. Hopefully, someone will benefit...NVidia GTX 1080 installation on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
I have spent too many hours trying to figure this out, so here it is. Come, find out how to install the latest NVidia drivers to get your NVidia GPU working on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. These steps work for GTX 1080.