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adoyle [Preventing Job Clobbering]
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 ===== Preventing Job Clobbering ===== ===== Preventing Job Clobbering =====
  
 +There are currently 3 GPU's in ace-gpu-1. To select one of the three (0, 1, 2), set the CUDA_​VISIBLE_​DEVICES environment variable. This can be accomplished by adding the following line to your ~/​.bash_profile file on ace-gpu-1, where X is either 0, 1 or 2:
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 +<​code>​
 +export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=X
 +</​code>​
 +
 +This will only take effect when you log in, so log out and back in and try the following to ensure that it worked:
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 +<​code>​
 +echo $CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES
 +</​code>​
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 +If it outputs the ID that you selected then you're ready to use the GPU.
 +
 +==== Sharing a single GPU ====
 To configure TensorFlow to not pre-allocate all GPU memory you can use the following Python code: To configure TensorFlow to not pre-allocate all GPU memory you can use the following Python code:
  
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 +This has been found to work only to a certain extent, and when there are several jobs that use a significant amount of the GPU resources, jobs can still be ruined even when using the above code
 ===== GPU Info ===== ===== GPU Info =====
  
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