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<span id="title-text"> HCC-DOCS : Running Theano </span>
========================================================

Created by <span class="author"> Adam Caprez</span>, last modified on
Jun 14, 2018

Theano is available on HCC resources via the modules system.  CPU
versions are available on Sandhills and Tusker; both CPU and GPU
versions are available on Crane.  Additionally, installs for both Python
2.7 and 3.6 are provided.

### Initial Setup

Theano attempts to write to a `~/.theano` directory in some
circumstances, which can cause errors as the `/home` filesystem is
read-only on HCC machines.  As a workaround, create the directory on
`/work` and make a symlink from `/home`:

**Create & symlink .theano directory**

``` syntaxhighlighter-pre
mkdir -p $WORK/.theano
ln -s $WORK/.theano $HOME/.theano
```

This only needs to be done once on each HCC machine.

### Running the CPU version

To use the CPU version, simply load the module and run your Python code.
 You can choose between the Python 2.7, 3.5 or 3.6 environments:

**Python 2.7 version**

``` syntaxhighlighter-pre
module load theano/py27/1.0
python my_python2_script.py
```

or

**Python 3.5 version**

``` syntaxhighlighter-pre
module load theano/py35/1.0
python my_python3_script.py
```

or

**Python 3.6 version**

``` syntaxhighlighter-pre
module load theano/py36/1.0
python my_python3_script.py
```

<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);font-size: 16.0px;font-weight: bold;">  
</span>

<span
style="color: rgb(0,0,0);font-size: 16.0px;font-weight: bold;">Running
the GPU version</span>

To use the GPU version, first create a `~/.theanorc` file with the
following contents (or append to an existing file as needed):

**\~/.theanorc**

``` syntaxhighlighter-pre
[global]
device = cuda
```

Next, load the theano module:

**Load the theano module**

``` syntaxhighlighter-pre
module load theano/py27/0.9
```

To test the GPU support, start an interactive job on a GPU node and
import the theano module within the Python interpreter.  You should see
output similar to the following:

**GPU support test**

``` syntaxhighlighter-pre
Python 2.7.15 | packaged by conda-forge | (default, May  8 2018, 14:46:53)
[GCC 4.8.2 20140120 (Red Hat 4.8.2-15)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import theano
Using cuDNN version 7005 on context None
Mapped name None to device cuda: Tesla K20m (0000:03:00.0)
```