Torch ResNet Installation

Torch ResNet Installation
=========================


This is the suggested way to install the Torch ResNet dependencies on [Ubuntu 14.04+](http://www.ubuntu.com/):
* NVIDIA CUDA 7.0+
* NVIDIA cuDNN v4
* Torch
* ImageNet dataset


## Requirements
* NVIDIA GPU with compute capability 3.5 or above


## Install CUDA
1. Install the `build-essential` package:
 ```bash
 sudo apt-get install build-essential
 ```


2. If you are using a Virtual Machine (like Amazon EC2 instances), install:
 ```bash
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install linux-generic
 ```


3. Download the CUDA .deb file for Linux Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit from: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads.
The file will be named something like `cuda-repo-ubuntu1404-7-5-local_7.5-18_amd64.deb`


4. Install CUDA from the .deb file:
 ```bash
 sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1404-7-5-local_7.5-18_amd64.deb
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install cuda
 echo "export PATH=/usr/local/cuda/bin/:\$PATH; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda/lib64/:\$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; " >>~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc
 ```


4. Restart your computer


## Install cuDNN v4
1. Download cuDNN v4 from https://developer.nvidia.com/cuDNN  (requires registration).
  The file will be named something like `cudnn-7.0-linux-x64-v4.0-rc.tgz`.


2. Extract the file to `/usr/local/cuda`:
 ```bash
 tar -xvf cudnn-7.0-linux-x64-v4.0-rc.tgz
 sudo cp cuda/include/*.h /usr/local/cuda/include
 sudo cp cuda/lib64/*.so* /usr/local/cuda/lib64
 ```


## Install Torch
1. Install the Torch dependencies:
  ```bash
  curl -sk https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torch/ezinstall/master/install-deps | bash -e
  ```


2. Install Torch in a local folder:
  ```bash
  git clone https://github.com/torch/distro.git ~/torch --recursive
  cd ~/torch; ./install.sh
  ```


If you want to uninstall torch, you can use the command: `rm -rf ~/torch`


## Install the Torch cuDNN v4 bindings
```bash
git clone -b R4 https://github.com/soumith/cudnn.torch.git
cd cudnn.torch; luarocks make
```


## Download the ImageNet dataset
The ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) dataset has 1000 categories and 1.2 million images. The images do not need to be preprocessed or packaged in any database, but the validation images need to be moved into appropriate subfolders.


1. Download the images from http://image-net.org/download-images


2. Extract the training data:
  ```bash
  mkdir train && mv ILSVRC2012_img_train.tar train/ && cd train
  tar -xvf ILSVRC2012_img_train.tar && rm -f ILSVRC2012_img_train.tar
  find . -name "*.tar" | while read NAME ; do mkdir -p "${NAME%.tar}"; tar -xvf "${NAME}" -C "${NAME%.tar}"; rm -f "${NAME}"; done
  cd ..
  ```


3. Extract the validation data and move images to subfolders:
  ```bash
  mkdir val && mv ILSVRC2012_img_val.tar val/ && cd val && tar -xvf ILSVRC2012_img_val.tar
  wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/soumith/imagenetloader.torch/master/valprep.sh | bash
  ```


## Download Torch ResNet
```bash
git clone https://github.com/facebook/fb.resnet.torch.git
cd fb.resnet.torch
```