# Install BigDL-LLM on Windows for Intel GPU
This guide demonstrates how to install BigDL-LLM on Windows with Intel GPUs.
This process applies to Intel Core Ultra and Core 12 - 14 gen integrated GPUs (iGPUs), as well as Intel Arc Series GPU.
## Install GPU driver
* Download and Install Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition from the [official Microsoft Visual Studio website](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/). Ensure you select the **Desktop development with C++ workload** during the installation process.
> Note: The installation could take around 15 minutes, and requires at least 7GB of free disk space.
> If you accidentally skip adding the **Desktop development with C++ workload** during the initial setup, you can add it afterward by navigating to **Tools > Get Tools and Features...**. Follow the instructions on [this Microsoft guide](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/vscpp-step-0-installation?view=msvc-170#step-4---choose-workloads) to update your installation.
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* Download and install the latest GPU driver from the [official Intel download page](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/785597/intel-arc-iris-xe-graphics-windows.html). A system reboot is necessary to apply the changes after the installation is complete.
> Note: the process could take around 10 minutes. After reboot, check for the **Intel Arc Control** application to verify the driver has been installed correctly. If the installation was successful, you should see the **Arc Control** interface similar to the figure below
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* To monitor your GPU's performance and status, you can use either use the **Windows Task Manager** (see the left side of the figure below) or the **Arc Control** application (see the right side of the figure below) or :
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## Setup Python Environment
* Visit [Miniconda installation page](https://docs.anaconda.com/free/miniconda/), download the **Miniconda installer for Windows**, and follow the instructions to complete the installation.
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* After installation, open the **Anaconda Prompt**, create a new python environment `llm`:
```bash
conda create -n llm python=3.9 libuv
```
* Activate the newly created environment `llm`:
```bash
conda activate llm
```
## Install oneAPI
* With the `llm` environment active, use `pip` to install the [**Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit**](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/overview.html):
```bash
pip install dpcpp-cpp-rt==2024.0.2 mkl-dpcpp==2024.0.0 onednn==2024.0.0
```
## Install `bigdl-llm`
* With the `llm` environment active, use `pip` to install `bigdl-llm` for GPU:
Choose either US or CN website for extra index url:
* US:
```bash
pip install --pre --upgrade bigdl-llm[xpu] --extra-index-url https://pytorch-extension.intel.com/release-whl/stable/xpu/us/
```
* CN:
```bash
pip install --pre --upgrade bigdl-llm[xpu] --extra-index-url https://pytorch-extension.intel.com/release-whl/stable/xpu/cn/
```
> Note: If there are network issues when installing IPEX, refer to [this guide](https://bigdl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/doc/LLM/Overview/install_gpu.html#install-bigdl-llm-from-wheel) for more details.
* You can verfy if bigdl-llm is successfully by simply importing a few classes from the library. For example, in the Python interactive shell, execute the following import command:
```python
from bigdl.llm.transformers import AutoModel,AutoModelForCausalLM
```
## A quick example
Now let's play with a real LLM. We'll be using the [phi-1.5](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/phi-1_5) model, a 1.3 billion parameter LLM for this demostration. Follow the steps below to setup and run the model, and observe how it responds to a prompt "What is AI?".
* Step 1: Open the **Anaconda Prompt** and activate the Python environment `llm` you previously created:
```bash
conda activate llm
```
* Step 2: If you're running on integrated GPU, set some environment variables by running below commands:
> For more details about runtime configurations, refer to [this guide](https://bigdl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/doc/LLM/Overview/install_gpu.html#runtime-configuration):
```bash
set SYCL_CACHE_PERSISTENT=1
set BIGDL_LLM_XMX_DISABLED=1
```
* Step 3: To ensure compatibility with `phi-1.5`, update the transformers library to version 4.37.0:
```bash
pip install -U transformers==4.37.0
```
* Step 4: Create a new file named `demo.py` and insert the code snippet below.
```python
# Copy/Paste the contents to a new file demo.py
import torch
from bigdl.llm.transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, GenerationConfig
generation_config = GenerationConfig(use_cache = True)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("microsoft/phi-1_5", trust_remote_code=True)
# load Model using bigdl-llm and load it to GPU
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
"microsoft/phi-1_5", load_in_4bit=True, cpu_embedding=True, trust_remote_code=True)
model = model.to('xpu')
# Format the prompt
question = "What is AI?"
prompt = " Question:{prompt}\n\n Answer:".format(prompt=question)
# Generate predicted tokens
with torch.inference_mode():
input_ids = tokenizer.encode(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to('xpu')
output = model.generate(input_ids, do_sample=False, max_new_tokens=32, generation_config = generation_config).cpu()
output_str = tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(output_str)
```
> Note: when running LLMs on Intel iGPUs with limited memory size, we recommend setting `cpu_embedding=True` in the from_pretrained function.
> This will allow the memory-intensive embedding layer to utilize the CPU instead of GPU.
* Step 5. Run `demo.py` within the activated Python environment using the following command:
```bash
python demo.py
```
### Example output
Example output on a system equipped with an 11th Gen Intel Core i7 CPU and Iris Xe Graphics iGPU:
```
Question:What is AI?
Answer: AI stands for Artificial Intelligence, which is the simulation of human intelligence in machines.
```