Deep Water

What it is

• Native implementation of Deep Learning models for GPU-optimized backends (MXNet, Caffe, TensorFlow, etc.)
• State-of-the-art Deep Learning models trained from the H2O Platform
• Train user-defined or pre-defined Deep Learning models for image/text/H2OFrame classification from Flow, R, Python, Java, Scala or REST API
• Behaves just like any other H2O model (Flow, cross-validation, early stopping, hyper-parameter search, etc.)
• Deep Water is a legacy project (as of December 2017), which means that it is no longer under active development. The H2O.ai team has no current plans to add new features, however, contributions from the community (in the form of pull requests) are welcome.

Python/R Jupyter Notebooks

Check out a sample of cool Deep Learning Jupyter notebooks!

Pre-Release Downloads

This release of Deep Water is based on the latest H2O-3 release

The downloadable packages below are built for the following system specifications:

• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• NVIDIA Display driver at least 367
• CUDA 8.0.44 or later (we recommend the latest version) in /usr/local/cuda
• CUDNN 5.1 (placed inside of lib and include directories in /usr/local/cuda/)

To use the GPU, please set the following environment variables:

export CUDA_PATH=/usr/local/cuda
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$CUDA_PATH/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Python + Flow (most common)

• Required to run python Jupyter notebooks: H2O Deep Water enabled Python 2.7/3.5 module -- install via pip install <file>
• To build custom MXNet networks from Python: Matching MXNet Python 2.7 egg -- install via easy_install <file>
• To build custom TensorFlow networks from Python: Matching TensorFlow Python 2.7 wheel -- install via pip install <file>

R + Flow (R users)

• Required to run R examples: H2O Deep Water enabled R package -- install via R CMD INSTALL <file>

• To build custom Tensorflow networks from R: Matching TensorFlow R package (unofficial from RStudio) -- follow link for installation instructions

Flow (Web UI)

• To run from Flow only: H2O Standalone h2o.jar -- launch via java -jar h2o.jar for image tasks we recommend java -Xmx30g -jar h2o.jar

If you are interested in running H2O Deep Water on a different infrastructure, see the DIY build instructions below.

Running GPU enabled Deep Water in H2O

(Optional) Launch H2O by hand and build Deep Water models from Flow (localhost:54321)

java -jar h2o.jar

Java example use cases

Example Java GPU-enabled unit tests.

Python example use cases

Example Python GPU-enabled unit tests. Check out a sample of cool Deep Learning Python Jupyter notebooks!

R example use cases

Example R GPU-enabled unit tests. Check out a sample of cool Deep Learning R Jupyter notebooks!

Scala / Sparkling Water example use cases

Coming soon.

Pre-Release Amazon AWS Image

We have a pre-built image for Amazon Web Services's EC2 environment:

• AMI ID: ami-97591381
• AMI Name: h2o-deepwater-ami-latest
• AWS Region: US East (N. Virginia)
• Recommended instance type: p2.xlarge

The AMI image contains the Docker Image described below. Once started, login to the shell prompt. It's a good idea to update the docker image with docker pull opsh2oai/h2o-deepwater to ensure that you have the most recent version. Then start the docker image, either with the provided shell script or with nvidia-docker run -it --net host opsh2oai/h2o-deepwater.

Start H2O with java -Xmx30g -jar /opt/h2o.jar &. Connect to port 54321.

Start Jupyter with jupyter notebook --allow-root --ip=* &. Connect to the link shown, with your IP exchanged for localhost.

Pre-Release Docker Image

We have a GPU-enabled Docker image and one the CPU only. Both are available on Docker Hub.

For both images you need to install Docker, see http://www.docker.com

• Optional Step. Make docker run without sudo. Instructions for Ubuntu 16.04:
  • sudo groupadd docker
  • sudo gpasswd -a ${USER} docker
  • sudo service docker restart
  • log out then log in, or newgrp docker

GPU-Enabled Docker Image (Recommended)

To use the GPU-enabled Docker image you need a Linux machine with at least one GPU, a GPU driver, and with docker and nvidia-docker installed.

An NVIDIA GPU with a Compute Capability of at least 3.5 is necessary. See https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus .

If you use Amazon Web Services (AWS), a good machine type to use is the P2 series. Note that G2 series machines have GPUs that are too old.

If you have used these docker images before, please run docker pull IMAGENAME to ensure that you have the latest version.

1. Install nvidia-docker, see https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker . Note that you can only use Linux machines with one or more NVIDIA GPUs:

   • GNU/Linux x86_64 with kernel version > 3.10
   • Docker >= 1.9 (official docker-engine, docker-ce or docker-ee only)
   • NVIDIA GPU with Architecture > Fermi (2.1) and Compute Capability >= 3.5
   • NVIDIA drivers >= 340.29 with binary nvidia-modprobe

2. Download and run the H2O Docker image

   • nvidia-docker run -it --rm --net host -v $PWD:/host opsh2oai/h2o-deepwater
   • You now get a prompt in the image: # . The directory you started from is avaiable as /host
   • Start H2O with java -jar /opt/h2o.jar
   • Python, R and Jupyter Notebooks are available
   • exit or ctrl-d closes the image

CPU-only Docker Image

To use the CPU-enabled Docker image you just need to have Docker installed. Note that this image is significantly slower than the GPU image, which is why we don't recommend it.

• Download and run the H2O Docker image:
  • On Linux: docker run -it --rm --net host -v $PWD:/host opsh2oai/h2o-deepwater-cpu
  • On MacOS: docker run -it --rm -p 54321:54321 -p 8080:8080 -v $PWD:/host opsh2oai/h2o-deepwater-cpu
  • You now get a prompt in the image: # . The directory you started from is avaiable as /host
  • Start H2O with java -jar /opt/h2o.jar
  • Python, R and Jupyter Notebooks are available
  • exit or ctrl-d closes the image

Roadmap, Architecture and Demo

Download the Deep Water overview slides.

DIY Build Instructions

If you want to use Deep Water in H2O-3, you'll need to have a .jar file that includes backend support for at least one of MXNet, Caffe or TensorFlow.

1. Build MXNet

Instructions to build MXNet

2. Build TensorFlow

Instructions to build TensorFlow

3. Build Caffe

Coming soon.

4. Build H2O Backend Connectors

From the top-level of the deepwater repository, do

./gradlew build -x test

This will create the following file: build/libs/deepwater-all.jar

5. Add DeepWater support to H2O-3

You need to check out the h2o-3. Copy the freshly created jar file build/libs/deepwater-all.jar from the previous step to H2O-3's library h2o-3/lib/deepwater-all.jar (create the directory if it's not there) and you're done!

Build H2O-3 as usual:

./gradlew build -x test

This H2O version will now have GPU Deep Learning support!

To use the GPU, please make sure to set your path to your CUDA installation:

export CUDA_PATH=/usr/local/cuda

Install the Python wheel:

sudo pip install h2o-3/h2o-py/dist/h2o-3.11.0.99999-py2.py3-none-any.whl

(Optional) Install the MXNet Python/R packages

If you want to build your own MXNet models from Python or R, install the MXNet wheel (which was built together with MXNet above):

sudo easy_install deepwater/thirdparty/mxnet/python/dist/mxnet-0.7.0-py2.7.egg
R CMD INSTALL deepwater/thirdparty/mxnet/mxnet_0.7.tar.gz

Releasing

The release process bundles all defined submodules and push them into Maven central via Sonatype repository provider. The released artifacts are Java 6 compatible.

The release can be invoked for all modules by:

./gradlew -PdoRelease -PbuildOnlyBackendApi -PdoJava6Bytecode=true -Prelease.useAutomaticVersion=true release

The process performs the following steps:

• Updates gradle.properties and removes SNAPSHOT and increases minor version (can be changed)
• Creates a new release commit and tags it with release tag. (See gradle/release.gradle file to override the default template.)
• Builds
• Verifies compatibility of used API with Java 6 API
• Bytecode rewrite to be compatible with Java 6
• Generation of artifact metadata
• Pushes artifacts into staging area at https://oss.sonatype.org/

The process needs to be finished manually by:

• Logging in to https://oss.sonatype.org/#stagingRepositories
• Performing the actions "Close" and "Release" for the ai.h2o staging area
  • Note: Be careful because the area can contain more artifacts from different H2O projects.

Note: The release process creates two new commits and a new tag with the release version. However, the process does not push it to a remote repository, so it is necessary to perform a remote update manually using git push --tags or update the gradle/release.gradle settings and remove the --dry-run option from the pushOptions field.