Weights & Biases (wandb)

Weights & Biases (wandb) is a "meta machine learning platform" designed to help AI practitioners and teams build reliable machine learning models for real-world applications by streamlining the machine learning model lifecycle. By using wandb, users can track, compare, explain and reproduce their machine learning experiments.

Using wandb on Compute Canada clusters

Availability

Since it requires an internet connection, wandb has restricted availability on compute nodes, depending on the cluster:

Cluster	Availability	Note
Béluga	Yes ✅	wandb can be used after loading the httpproxy module: module load httpproxy
Cedar	Yes ✅	Internet access is enabled
Graham	No ❌	Internet access is disabled on compute nodes