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For details on how to run PyTorch with multiple GPUs and/or multiple nodes, see
[
distributed training
](
distributed_training.md
)
.
## Migrate PyTorch-script from CPU to GPU
It is recommended to use GPUs when using large training data sets. While TensorFlow automatically uses GPUs if they are available, in
PyTorch you have to move your tensors manually.
First, you need to import
`torch.cuda`
:
```
python3
import torch.cuda
```
Then you define a
`device`
-variable, which is set to 'cuda' automatically when a GPU is available with this code:
```
python3
device = torch.device('cuda' if torch.cuda.is_available() else 'cpu')
```
You then have to move all of your tensors to the selected device. This looks like this:
```
python3
x_train = torch.FloatTensor(x_train).to(device)
y_train = torch.FloatTensor(y_train).to(device)
```
Remember that this does not break backward compatibility when you port the script back to a computer without GPU, because without GPU,
`device`
is set to 'cpu'.
### Caveats
#### Moving data back to the CPU-memory
The CPU cannot directly access variables stored on the GPU. If you want to use the variables, e.g. in a
`print`
-statement or
when editing with NumPy or anything that is not PyTorch, you have to move them back to the CPU-memory again. This then may look like this:
```
python3
cpu_x_train = x_train.cpu()
print(cpu_x_train)
...
error_train = np.sqrt(metrics.mean_squared_error(y_train[:,1].cpu(), y_prediction_train[:,1]))
```
Remember that, without
`.detach()`
before the CPU, if you change
`cpu_x_train`
,
`x_train`
will also be changed.
If you want to treat them independently, use
```
python3
cpu_x_train = x_train.detach().cpu()
```
Now you can change
`cpu_x_train`
without
`x_train`
being affected.
#### Speed improvements and batch size
When you have a lot of very small data points, the speed may actually decrease when you try to train them on the GPU.
This is because moving data from the CPU-memory to the GPU-memory takes time. If this occurs, please try using
a very large batch size. This way, copying back and forth only takes places a few times and the bottleneck may
be reduced.
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