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What is Anaconda for machine learning?
Anaconda distribution is a free and open-source platform for Python/R programming languages. It can be easily installed on any OS such as Windows, Linux, and MAC OS. It provides more than 1500 Python/R data science packages which are suitable for developing machine learning and deep learning models.
How do you use Anaconda for machine learning?
- Step 1: Download Anaconda. In this step, we will download the Anaconda Python package for your platform.
- Step 2: Install Anaconda.
- Step 3: Update Anaconda.
- Step 4: Install CUDA Toolkit & cuDNN.
- Step 5: Add cuDNN into Environment Path.
- Step 6: Create an Anaconda Environment.
- Step 7: Install Deep Learning Libraries.
Which is better Python or anaconda?
Anaconda is the best tool in processing a large amount of data for the required purpose. Python is versatile in creating the applications needed for the data science industry.
Why do you need conda?
Conda on the other hand can install Python packages as well as the Python interpreter directly. Another key difference between the two tools is that conda has the ability to create isolated environments that can contain different versions of Python and/or the packages installed in them.
Does Anaconda install Cuda?
Anaconda does not require the installation of the CUDA SDK. All other CUDA libraries are supplied as conda packages. GPU-enabled packages are built against a specific version of CUDA. Currently supported versions include CUDA 8, 9.0 and 9.2.
Where should I install Anaconda?
We recommend installing Anaconda or Miniconda into a directory that contains only 7-bit ASCII characters and no spaces, such as C:\anaconda . Do not install into paths that contain spaces such as C:\Program Files or that include Unicode characters outside the 7-bit ASCII character set.
Do I need Anaconda to run Python?
We recommend that you download the latest version of Anaconda and then make a Python 3.5 (or 3.6) environment. Or download the latest version of Anaconda and run the following command to install Python 3.5 (or 3.6) in the root environment: conda install python=3.5 or conda install python=3.6 .
Where should you install Anaconda?
Does Anaconda need graphics card?
Anaconda requires that the user has installed a recent NVIDIA driver that meets the version requirements in the table below. Anaconda does not require the installation of the CUDA SDK. Ubuntu and some other Linux distributions ship with a third party open-source driver for NVIDIA GPUs called Nouveau.
Does Anaconda have GPU?
In addition, GPUs are now available from every major cloud provider, so access to the hardware has never been easier. Fortunately, Anaconda Distribution makes it easy to get started with GPU computing with several GPU-enabled packages that can be installed directly from our package repository.