amoudgl/setup_visdom.md

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    Setup Visdom on Remote Server

Install visdom on your local system and remote server.
pip3 install visdom

On remote server, do:
ssh -N -f -L localhost:8097:localhost:8097 username@localsystemip

Set the same port in your python plotting script which you used in the port forwarding step above (8097 here).
Plotting script example [demo.py]:
import visdom
import numpy as np
cfg = {"server": "localhost",
       "port": 8097}
vis = visdom.Visdom('http://' + cfg["server"], port = cfg["port"])
vis.text('Hello Visdom!')
image = np.random.randint(0, 255, (3, 256, 256), dtype=np.uint8)
vis.image(image)
Run plotting script on remote server.
no_proxy=localhost python3 demo.py


Note for Ada: As of now, visdom only works if you have your proxy unset on Ada server. Either unset proxy with export http_proxy= or use no_proxy=localhost before your python command.

Run visdom server on local machine.
visdom

View your plots locally at http://localhost:8097.