Installing theano on Windows 8 with GPU enabled

Question

I understand that the Theano support for Windows 8.1 is at experimental stage only but I wonder if anyone had any luck with resolving my issues. Depending on my config, I ge

Answer 1

Here are my simple steps for installing theano on a 64-bit windows 10 machine. It's tested on the code listed here

(All installation are with default installation path)

• install anaconda python 3.x distribution (it already includes numpy, scipy, matlibplot, etc.)
• run 'conda install mingw libpython' in command-line
• install theano by downloading it from the official website and do `python setup.py install'
• install lastest CUDA toolkit for 64-bit windows 10 (now is 7.5)
• install visual studio 2013 (free for windows 10)
• create .theanorc.txt file under %USERPROFILE% path and here are the content in the .theanorc.txt file to run theano with GPU

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[global]

floatX = float32

device = gpu

[nvcc]

fastmath = True

compiler_bindir=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\bin\cl.exe

[cuda]

C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v7.5

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