diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md index 9183fe195..566243381 100644 --- a/INSTALL.md +++ b/INSTALL.md @@ -9,14 +9,20 @@ INSTALL file for Faiss (Fair AI Similarity Search) Install via Conda ----------------- -The easiest way to install FAISS is from anaconda. We regularly push stable releases to conda channel. FAISS conda package depends on mkl package shipped in conda. +The easiest way to install FAISS is from anaconda. We regularly push stable releases to conda channel. FAISS conda package depends on mkl and numpy package shipped in conda. + +Currently we support faiss-cpu on both Linux and OSX platforms. We also provide faiss-gpu compiled with CUDA8.0/CUDA9.0/CUDA9.1 on Linux systems. + You can easily install it by ``` # CPU version only conda install faiss-cpu -c pytorch -# GPU version requires CUDA to be installed, otherwise it falls back to CPU version -conda install faiss-gpu -c pytorch +# Make sure you have CUDA installed before installing faiss-gpu, otherwise it falls back to CPU version +conda install faiss-gpu -c pytorch # [DEFAULT]For CUDA8.0, comes with cudatoolkit8.0 +conda install faiss-gpu cuda90 -c pytorch # For CUDA9.0 +conda install faiss-gpu cuda91 -c pytorch # For CUDA9.1 +# cuda90/cuda91 shown above is a feature, it doesn't install CUDA for you. ``` Compile from source