shawwn / colab-tricks

Tricks for Colab power users

Google Colaboratory tips and tricks

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# ngrok-tricks.ipynb

Have you ever wanted to...

• SSH into a Colab instance?
• View Tensorboard while you're training?
• Use rsync to upload a bunch of files to a Colab instance?
• Use rsync to download a bunch of results without using Colab's annoying web interface?

... then click here for a step-by-step walkthrough!

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colab-tricks's Issues

Can not start view Tensorboard

Hello, I have a problem when run the cell "How to view tensorboard" in google colab in the picture below. I use connect GPU and actually I don't use Tensorflow but instead I am trying to connect to localhost of visdom view board, and I found your instructions. Hope you can help me. Thank you very much.

nvidia-smi problem after SSH into Colab

Thank you for great tips about SSH into Colab at ngrok-tricks.ipynb.

I encountered one problem. For the command nvidia-smi, in the Colab notebook:

Fri Mar 20 00:58:40 2020       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 440.64.00    Driver Version: 418.67       CUDA Version: 10.1     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  Tesla P100-PCIE...  Off  | 00000000:00:04.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   40C    P0    28W / 250W |      0MiB / 16280MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Your runtime has 27.4 gigabytes of available RAM

nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2018 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Sat_Aug_25_21:08:01_CDT_2018
Cuda compilation tools, release 10.0, V10.0.130

But on my Mac, after SSH into Colab

$ ssh -p 10055 [email protected] -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa_colab
Welcome to Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.14.137+ x86_64)
.....
root@118ff34f0bd4:~# nvidia-smi; /usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc --version
Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2018 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Sat_Aug_25_21:08:01_CDT_2018
Cuda compilation tools, release 10.0, V10.0.130
root@118ff34f0bd4:~#