CNTK on Azure

CNTK is available as Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine offerings.

Windows

• Data Science Virtual Machine
• Data Science Virtual Machine Documentation
• If you would like to use Microsoft Azure GPU Capability, be sure to read the correspondent section at the end of this page

Linux

• Data Science Virtual Machine
• Data Science Virtual Machine Documentation
• If you would like to use Microsoft Azure GPU Capability, be sure to read the correspondent section at the end of this page
• We recommend to get yourself familiar with the Azure Batch Shipyard which can provision Dockerized CNTK on Azure Batch compute nodes with the ability to execute on CPU, GPU, multinode CPU and multinode GPU with simple configuration files. CNTK recipes can be found here

Using Azure GPU

If you would like using Azure GPU capability for your Virtual Machines, you need to use Azure Deep Learning Extension.

Installing GPU Drivers for Azure

Also you need to ensure that you have NVIDIA drivers installed on your Virtual Machine. See OS specific details in the following articles:

• Windows
• Linux