{"id":20167,"date":"2022-01-28T14:01:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T13:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/en\/?p=20167"},"modified":"2022-01-28T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T13:01:35","slug":"jupyter-cloud-problems-with-tensorflow-in-the-current-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/jupyter-cloud-problems-with-tensorflow-in-the-current-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Jupyter-Cloud: problems with TensorFlow in the current version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[sc name=&#8220;head_betriebsmeldungen_en&#8220; message_id=&#8220;202201281400&#8243; affected=&#8220;Jupyter-Cloud users&#8220; impact=&#8220;TensorFlow not usable&#8220; ][\/sc]<\/p>\n<p>Since the end of last year the service Jupyter-Cloud has been extended to new servers to<br \/>\nincrease capacity. Attempts to use the library TensorFlow on these servers results in an<br \/>\nerror currently.<br \/>\nThe newer servers lack the CPU instruction set SSE4.1 which in newer versions of<br \/>\nTensorFlow is a hard requirement, but the AMD EPYC CPUs lack. As a result attempting to<br \/>\nimport the library in Python results in an error.<br \/>\nNot all servers of the service run on the affected CPUs. As a result not all users are<br \/>\naffected by this and consequently the library hasn&#8217;t been removed from the service. But<br \/>\npresently TensorFlow cannot be reliably expected to work in the service.<\/p>\n<p>Solutions for the problems are under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively the HPC service of GWDG can be used as well as creating individual VMs in<br \/>\nGWDG Cloud.<br \/>\nBut all effort is targeted towards enabling the use of TensorfFow in Jupyter-Cloud again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[sc name=&#8220;head_betriebsmeldungen_en&#8220; message_id=&#8220;202201281400&#8243; affected=&#8220;Jupyter-Cloud users&#8220; impact=&#8220;TensorFlow not usable&#8220; ][\/sc] Since the end of last year the service Jupyter-Cloud has been extended to new servers to increase capacity. Attempts to use the library TensorFlow on these servers results in an error currently. The newer servers lack the CPU instruction set SSE4.1 which in newer versions of &#8230; <a title=\"Jupyter-Cloud: problems with TensorFlow in the current version\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/jupyter-cloud-problems-with-tensorflow-in-the-current-version\/\" aria-label=\"Mehr Informationen \u00fcber Jupyter-Cloud: problems with TensorFlow in the current version\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-betriebsmeldungen","category-cloud-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20168,"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20167\/revisions\/20168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/info.gwdg.de\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}