Sacred VS nvidia-gpu-scheduler

🔗 https://github.com/IDSIA/sacred

I'm using Omniboard (https://github.com/vivekratnavel/omniboard) with Sacred (https://github.com/IDSIA/sacred) for tracking experiments. You can specify custom Observers in Sacred so the model metrics and logs will be saved to a local directory or to a remote DB (e.g., MongoDB). I use a MongoDB database hosted on Atlas. Unlike other suggested options, Sacred and Omniboard are free. Atlas free tier comes with 512MB of free storage which is a huge amount if you're uploading only log files to it.

I'm using Omniboard (https://github.com/vivekratnavel/omniboard) with Sacred (https://github.com/IDSIA/sacred) for tracking experiments. You can specify custom Observers in Sacred so the model metrics and logs will be saved to a local directory or to a remote DB (e.g., MongoDB). I use a MongoDB database hosted on Atlas. Unlike other suggested options, Sacred and Omniboard are free. Atlas free tier comes with 512MB of free storage which is a huge amount if you're uploading only log files to it. ex = Experiment() ex.observers.append(FileStorageObserver(EXPERIMENTS_ROOT)) ex.observers.append(MongoObserver(url=MONGODB_URL, db_name='sacred'))

sacred helped me log my experiments. I did setup my environment only once 4 years ago, and since then I have a list of all my training runs with the hyperparameters and results.

For 1, setup an experiment tracking framework. I found Sacred to be helpful https://github.com/IDSIA/sacred.

Sure. No, a simple bash script is not enough. In my case, we have several machines shared in the department, some with GPUs, some without. What I have is a python script that gets a list of jobs and then it schedule them in the first available machine (according to memory/CPU/GPU availability). Unfortunately, what I have is really entangled with our computing platform (Docker-based with a shared filesystem) and not really easy to have it as standalone project (that's why I said "know you infrastructure"). The most similar thing that I could find online is this project. I believe there are then some HPC tools that could be useful (e.g. Slurm), but that's way too much for what we need.