Data Science

R with (external) GPU

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We are going to mess around with some of the R gpu packages using our eGPU Rig. Look here for how to set up RStudio and then use the gpuR, gputools and keras/tensorflow packages against an eGPU.

Data Science

NUC with (external) GPU – a Big Little ML Rig

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eGPU obsessives might like this. We are going to set up an IntelĀ® NUC Kit NUC6i7KYK (Skull Canyon) connected via Thunderbolt 3 (USB Type-C) cable to an eGPU as the AORUS GTX 1080 Gaming Box running Linux (Ubuntu 17.04).  But wait there’s more. Then we are going to install the CUDA and cuDNN libraries to […]

Data Science

SparkR with OpenShift

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Let’s set up a data science workbench on OpenShift (docker/kubernetes). The components will be an RStudio Server executing SparkR instructions to a remote Apache Spark instance, all hosted within a local OpenShift cluster instance. Examples include processing AWS S3 Bucket hosted data from Spark. So saddle up and ride ole’ Roxy all the way! This lab is another in […]