google-cloud.md

Instructions for Google Cloud

• Instructions for Google Cloud
  • Virtual Machines (VM)
    • Creating VM instances
    • Accessing VM instances
    • Using VM instances
    • Specific image instructions
      • kansal-image-2

Virtual Machines (VM)

Creating VM instances

1. Go to Compute Engine -> VM Instances
2. Choose resources (CPU, GPU etc.)
3. Choose a disk image, you can either:
   1. Start from a standard image such as Ubuntu
   2. Start from a custom image we've made, such as kansal-image-2 which has cuda and PyTorch installed. You can also make your own image and use that.
4. Select 'Allow HTTP traffic' and 'Allow HTTPS traffic'.
5. Create the image.

Accessing VM instances

Follow Nhan's instructions here https://fastml.slack.com/files/T6RPRPG92/FL217F4RG?origin_team=T6RPRPG92. You can find your instance's IP address on the VM Instances page.

Using VM instances

Some notes for using them.

• Can be used just like a standard server you ssh into.
• Remember to shut them down if you are not using them
  • Compute Engine -> VM Instances -> <your instance name> and click Shutdown.
  • The instance state will be saved so you can continue from where you left off if you want to start it again.
• You can leave a process running and exit the instance by using, for example, nohup or screen.
• You can start an http server to access your server files from your browser using python -m http.server, which can be run in the background with screen or nohup. (e.g. screen -d -m python3 -m http.server 80)

Specific image instructions

kansal-image-2

1. Switch to user with su user and the home directory /app/.
2. You may need to add miniconda to your path: export PATH="/home/user/miniconda3/bin:$PATH"
3. Go nuts.