Setup CNTK on your machine - wolfma61/CNTK GitHub Wiki

CNTK Setup

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You can install the complete source code of CNTK and build the binaries on your machine, but we also provide regular binary drops of the CNTK executables, including sample data and sample models.

Binary Installation of CNTK

If you just want to download the latest precompiled binaries to your machine, follow the instructions here:

• CNTK Binary Download and Configuration

Installation as Azure Virtual Machine or Linux Docker container

You may use CNTK via Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine offering (Windows and Linux) or install it as a Docker container (Linux). See the corresponding sections:

• CNTK on Azure
• CNTK Docker Containers

Installation of the CNTK codebase

If you want to take a look at the CNTK source code, compile CNTK yourself, make changes to the CNTK codebase, and contribute these changes back to the community, these are the pages for you:

• Setting up CNTK on Windows
• Setting up CNTK on Linux
• Enabling 1bit SGD
• Developing and Testing
• CNTK Production Test Configurations

Usage and Samples

If you want to learn more about CNTK usage and how to execute the provided samples, you find more information on the following pages

• CNTK usage overview
• Examples