I am learning to use Tensorflow for object detection. To speed up the training process, I have taken a AWS g3.16xlarge instance which has 4 GPUs. I am using the following code to run training process:
export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,2,3
python object_detection/train.py --logtostderr --pipeline_config_path=/home/ubuntu/builder/rcnn.config --train_dir=/home/ubuntu/builder/experiments/training/
Inside the rcnn.config - i have set the batch-size = 1. During runtime I get the following output:
console output
2018-11-09 07:25:50.104310: I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:1045] Device peer to peer matrix
2018-11-09 07:25:50.104385: I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:1051] DMA: 0 1 2 3
2018-11-09 07:25:50.104395: I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:1061] 0: Y N N N
2018-11-09 07:25:50.104402: I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:1061] 1: N Y N N
2018-11-09 07:25:50.104409: I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:1061] 2: N N Y N
2018-11-09 07:25:50.104416: I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:1061] 3: N N N Y
2018-11-09 07:25:50.104429: I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:1120] Creating TensorFlow device (/device:GPU:0) -> (device: 0, name: Tesla M60, pci bus id: 0000:00:1b.0, compute capability: 5.2)
2018-11-09 07:25:50.104439: I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:1120] Creating TensorFlow device (/device:GPU:1) -> (device: 1, name: Tesla M60, pci bus id: 0000:00:1c.0, compute capability: 5.2)
2018-11-09 07:25:50.104446: I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:1120] Creating TensorFlow device (/device:GPU:2) -> (device: 2, name: Tesla M60, pci bus id: 0000:00:1d.0, compute capability: 5.2)
2018-11-09 07:25:50.104455: I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:1120] Creating TensorFlow device (/device:GPU:3) -> (device: 3, name: Tesla M60, pci bus id: 0000:00:1e.0, compute capability: 5.2)
When I run nvidia-smi, I get the following output:
nvidia-smi output
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 375.26 Driver Version: 375.26 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 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 M60 Off | 0000:00:1B.0 Off | 0 |
| N/A 52C P0 129W / 150W | 7382MiB / 7612MiB | 92% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 1 Tesla M60 Off | 0000:00:1C.0 Off | 0 |
| N/A 33C P0 38W / 150W | 7237MiB / 7612MiB | 0% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 2 Tesla M60 Off | 0000:00:1D.0 Off | 0 |
| N/A 40C P0 38W / 150W | 7237MiB / 7612MiB | 0% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 3 Tesla M60 Off | 0000:00:1E.0 Off | 0 |
| N/A 34C P0 39W / 150W | 7237MiB / 7612MiB | 0% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 97860 C python 7378MiB |
| 1 97860 C python 7233MiB |
| 2 97860 C python 7233MiB |
| 3 97860 C python 7233MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
and **nvidia-smi dmon** provides the following output:
# gpu pwr temp sm mem enc dec mclk pclk
# Idx W C % % % % MHz MHz
0 158 69 90 69 0 0 2505 1177
1 38 36 0 0 0 0 2505 556
2 38 45 0 0 0 0 2505 556
3 39 37 0 0 0 0 2505 556
I am confused with each of the output. While I read the console output as the program is recognizing the availability of 4 different gpus, in the nvidia-smi output the volatile GPU-Util percentage is shown only for the first GPU and for the rest it is zero. However the same table prints memory usage for all the 4 gpu's at the bottom. And the nvidia-smi dmon prints the sm values only for first gpu and for the others it is zero. From this blog I understand the zero in dmon indicates that GPU is free.
What I want to understand is, does the train.py utilizes all the 4 GPU's that I have in my instance. If it is not utilizing all the GPU's how do I ensure the object_detection/train.py of tensorflow is optimized for all the GPU's.