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Hi,
I am new to QuantConnect and absolutely love the features. I am planning to run QuantConnect locally (Python) because I have my own data (not available on QuantConnect) and also plan to apply GPU based Machine Learning. My question is - can you run QuantConnect locally with custom data without docker (assuming running QuantConnect in docker cannot utilize GPU based ML)?
If it is possible, are there any python code samples that can help me get started locally?
I tried looking this up but couldn't find any definitive answer.
Thanks in advance,
AP
Jared Broad
Yes, it's fine to do without Docker but due to the difficulties of setting it up correctly we don't recommend it. It takes one of our team many days to get the docker setup perfectly built.
You can just follow the Dockerfile setup process to install it into the root operating system.
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Arijit Paul
Jared,
Does GPU work from within docker?
Thanks,
Arijit
Jared Broad
Many of the packages will need to be installed with GPU builds. It's on our list to do a version of the DockerfileFoundation for GPUs. If you'd like to contribute this to LEAN we can work with you in Slack to get it to build and merged to LEAN!
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Baba gi
+1 please support GPUs !
Either as part of a backtest node (prefered), or as part of lean
Arijit Paul
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