NVIDIA TAO Toolkit v5.2.0
TAO Toolkit v5.2.0

Remote Client

The remote client allows you to create model experiments using the command line instead of relying on API calls.

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pip3 install -y nvidia-tao-client

Below is a detectnet_v2 example of shared storage content.

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shared └── users     ├── 1a40ddb6-d389-4c39-9b40-eaa948ee508d     │   ├── metadata.json     │   ├── datasets     │   │   ├── 78cff931-e867-4e9c-b8a7-30fa243e433c     │   │   │   ├── metadata.json     │   │   │   ├── specs     │   │   │   │   └── convert.json     │   │   │   ├── images     │   │   │   │ ├── 000000.jpg     │   │   │   │ └── …     │   │   │   ├── labels     │   │   │   │   ├── 000000.txt     │   │   │   │   └── …     │   │   │   ├── 444fed7a-ac3f-4499-8a57-0234a43c752d     │   │   │   │ ├── status.json     │   │   │   │   └── …   │   │   │   └── tfrecords     │   │   │       └── …     │   │   └── …     │   └── models     │       ├── cdf387d2-067e-4935-be9d-7facbc851f60     │       │   ├── metadata.json     │       │   ├── specs     │       │   │   ├── train.json     │       │   │   └── …     │       │   ├── 444fed7a-ac3f-4499-8a57-0234a43c754e     │     │   │ ├── status.json     │     │   │   └── …     │       │   └── experiment_dir_unpruned     │       │       └── …     │       └── …     └── …

The command line depends on the following environment variables:

  • BASE_URL

  • USER

  • TOKEN

The command line is composed of:

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$ tao-client <network> <action> <args>

For example:

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$ tao-client detectnet-v2 run-action --id 042559ec-ab3e-438d-9c94-2cab38f76efc --action dataset_convert --job_type dataset

Note

You can always use –help argument to retrieve the command usage information.

To list supported networks:

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$ tao-client –help

To list supported detectnet-v2 actions:

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$ tao-client detectnet-v2 –help

The tutorial notebooks provide examples that demonstrate the various workflows.

  1. Download the resource using the NGC CLI.

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    ngc registry resource download-version "nvidia/tao/tao-getting-started:5.2.0"


  2. Find tutorial notebooks (.ipynb files).

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    cd tao-getting-started_v5.2.0/notebooks/tao_api_starter_kit/client


  3. Instead of using NGC, the tutorial notebooks can be downloaded from the machine where TAO API is deployed. You can obtain them using:

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    wget https://<ip_of_hosted_machine>:<nginx_service_forwarded_port>/tao_api_notebooks.zip unzip tao_api_notebooks.zip cd cli

  4. Serve these Notebook examples using Jupyter.

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    pip3 install jupyter notebook jupyter notebook --ip 0.0.0.0


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