Please follow these instructions if you are a graduate student or undergrad research assistant working with the group in the Data Systems Lab and want to run Castor on the lab desktop GPU machine (dragon).
If you have trouble / questions with instructions on this page, ping @tuzhucheng on Slack.
We already have a multi-user Conda environment with PyTorch and all other dependencies installed, so you do not need to install anything yourself. However, you can create Conda environments if you need to experiment with different library versions etc.
The multi-user Conda environment is located at /anaconda3/.
To use this multi-user environment, just add the following to your .bashrc or configuration file for your favourite shell.
export PATH="/anaconda3/bin:$PATH"
export LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/nvidia-375"Please also ensure /usr/local/cuda-8.0/lib64 is in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable if it is not already.
If not, you should add it in the .bashrc similar to above.
Please re-login or re-source your shell configuration after .bashrc is updated for the updated environment variables
to take effect.
We use shared cloned versions of the Castor-data and Castor-models repositories.
Instead of making your own cloned copies, you can just create symbolic links to the shared version instead
in your own working directory to save disk space. Assuming you want to put Castor, Castor-data, and Castor-models
under a directory called castorini and you are currently in the castorini directory, you can enter these commands:
ln -s /Castor-data Castor-data
ln -s /Castor-models Castor-modelsSo after you clone Castor, you have a directory structure under castorini that looks like this:
.
├── Castor
├── Castor-data
└── Castor-models
where Castor-data and Castor-models are actually symbolic links to /Castor-data and /Castor-models.