Setup CNTK on your machine

CNTK Setup

Install CNTK for the first time or update to a new version

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The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) supports both 64-bit Windows and 64-bit Linux platforms.

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 (or Update) of CNTK

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

Windows	Linux
Script-driven installation	Script-driven installation
Manual Installation	Manual Installation
	Docker Installation

Installation and building 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:

Windows	Linux
Manual development Environment Setup	Manual Development Environment Setup
Script-driven development setup
Migration from VS13 to VS15

• Enabling 1bit SGD
• Developing and Testing
• CNTK Production Test Configurations

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

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