December 4, 2024

If you have troubles to configure the environment using the command line, for example, due to some unexpected issues with miniforge, JupterLab on Rivanna is an alternative and it is much easier to setup. (Thanks to Aryan Magoon for reminding me this option.)

1. Create an interactive session

Following this link, which requires your UVA confidential, you will see a page like this

Click the My Interactive Sessions link, it will direct to the following page, which allows you to choose JupyterLab

And then, you need to configure the hardware environment that you will need. In this example, I chose

• GPU Partition

• 1 hour session

• 8 GB memory (CPU memory, and you may need more for actually running experiments)

• Allocation: choose the right allocation, and more importantly

• 1 Nvidia A40 GPU

  

You may need to wait for a few minutes to see the following page

Click the Connect to Jupyter will direct you to the following page

1.1 Create a new notebook

When create a new notebook, make sure to choose the one option PyTorch 2.4.0, then you don’t have to install PyTorch yourself.