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Operator Discretization Library https://odlgroup.github.io/odl/
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ODL on google colab #1489

Open adler-j opened 5 years ago

adler-j commented 5 years ago

Google colab is an online jupyter notebook-like service that runs in the cloud and allows users free access to a GPU. For obvious purposes this is quite useful as a learning tool and to let users access code that needs a GPU even when they don't personally own one.

It seems that pip installable libraries can be trivially installed, see e.g.

!pip install git+https://github.com/odlgroup/odl.git

Conda is harder https://github.com/astra-toolbox/astra-toolbox/issues/194 but could probably be fixed.

If we could make a simple example of this it would make introducing ODL in e.g. courses far easier.

adler-j commented 5 years ago

It should be noted that there are other options, e.g. azure notebooks but these don't provide a GPU.

kohr-h commented 5 years ago

So what's the TODO here for us? To make an example and link to it from the README? As some kind of inspiration? Or do you envision a more in-depth mention in the docs? As an alternative to installation, for instance.

adler-j commented 5 years ago

I think we could add this to the installation doc, as an alternative to conda. Perhaps we could somehow also have a ready made notebook so it's basically click and run for our users.

adler-j commented 4 years ago

There is now a working version here:

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1wsHNyuK0GAM8sh9kBTzwh8t6Kuivj1KW

It's quite easy, so we should perhaps add it to the README (e.g. "click here to try".)