# The Lambda Deep Learning Blog

Published on February 17, 2019 by Stephen Balaban

[**Perform GPU, CPU, and I/O stress testing on Linux**](https://lambda.ai/blog/perform-gpu-and-cpu-stress-testing-on-linux)

CPU, GPU, and I/O utilization monitoring using tmux, htop, iotop, and nvidia-smi. This stress test is running on a Lambda GPU Cloud 4x GPU instance. Often ...

Published on February 16, 2019 by Stephen Balaban

[**How to Run OpenAI's GPT-2 Text Generator on Your Computer**](https://lambda.ai/blog/run-openais-new-gpt-2-text-generator-code-with-your-gpu)

Update June 5th 2020: OpenAI has announced a successor to GPT-2 in a newly published paper. Checkout our GPT-3 model overview.

Published on February 10, 2019 by Stephen Balaban

[**Install CUDA 10 on Ubuntu 18.04**](https://lambda.ai/blog/install-cuda-10-on-ubuntu-18-04)

You were probably thinking that this was going to be a long post. You're in luck. All you need to do is to install Ubuntu 18.04 and then Lambda Stack. Here's ...

Published on February 10, 2019 by Stephen Balaban

[**Set up a GPU accelerated Docker container using Lambda Stack + Lambda Stack Dockerfiles on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS**](https://lambda.ai/blog/set-up-a-tensorflow-gpu-docker-container-using-lambda-stack-dockerfile)

Or, how Lambda Stack + Lambda Stack Dockerfiles = GPU accelerated deep learning containers

Published on January 25, 2019 by Stephen Balaban

[**On-prem GPU Training Infrastructure for Deep Learning - Slides**](https://lambda.ai/blog/on-prem-gpu-training-infrastructure-slides)

These slides are from my talk at Rework Deep Learning Summit 2019.

Published on November 28, 2018 by Stephen Balaban

[**Lambda NeurIPS 2018 Ticket Contest for Three NeurIPS Tickets**](https://lambda.ai/blog/neurips-ticket-contest)

Lambda is a diamond sponsor this year at NeurIPS. (The conference recently changed its name from NIPS to NeurIPS.) We have three extra registrations for the ...

Published on November 28, 2018 by Stephen Balaban

[**Google is probably using Adversarial Noise for reCAPTCHA**](https://lambda.ai/blog/google-using-adversarial-noise-for-recaptcha)

I'm not a human. Or at least that's what Google thought when I failed to fill out the reCAPTCHA properly for the third time. What exactly qualifies as a ...

Published on November 6, 2018 by Stephen Balaban

[**How to install Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 and Lambda Stack on a Tensorbook (Gen 2)**](https://lambda.ai/blog/how-to-install-ubuntu-16-04-on-a-tensorbook-gen-2)

Many deep learning teams have software that depends on Ubuntu 16.04 (and not 18.04). However, the installation process for 16.04 has some quirks with the ...

Published on October 12, 2018 by Stephen Balaban

[**Crowd Sourced Deep Learning GPU Benchmarks from the Community**](https://lambda.ai/blog/crowd-sourced-deep-learning-benchmarks)

We open sourced the benchmarking code we use at Lambda Labs so that anybody can reproduce the benchmarks that we publish or run their own. We encourage people ...

Published on October 8, 2018 by Stephen Balaban

[**Deep Learning GPU Benchmarks - V100 vs 2080 Ti vs 1080 Ti vs Titan V**](https://lambda.ai/blog/best-gpu-tensorflow-2080-ti-vs-v100-vs-titan-v-vs-1080-ti-benchmark)

At Lambda, we're often asked "what's the best GPU for deep learning?" In this post and accompanying white paper, we evaluate the NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti, RTX 2080, ...