Computing with GPUs: New GPU Support in Arvados 2.4

Arvados 2.4 now supports using GPUs, specifically the NVIDIA CUDA platform. In this blog post, we will show an example of running a TensorFlow machine learning demo on Arvados. About the GPU Demo We will be running using a demo that uses TensorFlow. TensorFlow is a free and open-source software platform used for machine learning and artificial intelligence with a focus on neural networks. This TensorFlow demo trains a neural network to create a classifier that identifies handwritten digits. It uses data from a famous dataset, the MNIST handwritten digit dataset, which is a large database of images of handwritten digits. It is a classic “real-world” dataset used by those wishing to learn more about machine learning. Each image is stored as 28x28 pixels (28x28 matrix of grayscale values). Sample images from the MNIST database (By Josef Steppan - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0)