Learn how to install Bacalhau
We’re very excited that you’re ready to take the first step with us. In the next 60 seconds, we’ll guide you through how to:
Installing the Bacalhau command line interface (CLI) will give you everything you need to run jobs and set up a Bacalhau cluster of your own.
The easiest way to install Bacalhau is to open your terminal and run:
Once the software is installed, the bacalhau command will be available inside your terminal.
If you can’t run the install script, you can also download the latest release of Bacalhau manually.
The Bacalhau software you just installed is pre-configured to run jobs against our demonstration network, which is great for trying things out. Run your first job from your terminal by typing:
Congratulations, you’ve just run your first Bacalhau job! Your first job asked a remote Bacalhau node to print out the message “Hello Expanso”.
You can follow the on-screen instructions to get more information about the job and download the results – which for this job will just be the message you printed.
Did something not go to plan? Reach out to us on Slack and we’ll help you get up and running.
Now that you’ve tested everything is working, you can move on to a more advanced example!
The Bacalhau documentation has many worked examples of how to run computationally intensive jobs including machine learning model inference, model training, data engineering and molecular dynamics.
Why not try an example of image generation using Stable Diffusion? You can start a job like this by typing:
Once the job is complete, download the results and see the image that the remote Bacalhau node has generated for you!
Now that you’re an expert at running jobs, it’s time to bring the power of Bacalhau to your own machines.
Check out the documentation on running your own private cluster. When you’re ready to scale your cluster to work for your whole organization, get in touch with us at Expanso to hear about how we can help!
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