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PostPosted: Wed Dec 25, 2024 4:04 am    Post subject: Nvidia Datacenter Driver Reply with quote

I'm adding a Nvidia Tesla A2 card to my server to support Cuda / Tensor flow / other AI and compute node acceleration. (the card does not have video out connections)

I am having a difficult time installing the correct driver for the system. The general "nvidia-drivers" package 1) requires X (this is a headless server), and 2) does not list this card as supported (if I'm reading the documentation correctly).

Does anyone know how to get the correct driver(s) installed so that pytorch can recognize the nvidia compute nodes for acceleration?
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 25, 2024 9:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

NVidia's site has a separate section for datacenter drivers. Have you seen them?

I see that they support RHEL, Debian and others.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 25, 2024 4:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I checked those out and wasn't sure how to convince gentoo to handle one of the other packaging formats. So I did grab the tarballs they have, which have a nvidia-installer binary; but I can't get that to run either.

I found that it has a --no-x-check that will bypass seeing if X (of some kind) is installed or not.
However, the installer errors out saying it cannot figure out my initramfs. Which makes sense as I am not using an initramfs at all on this system. Nor do I see an option to inform that installer to bypass it.

I feel like I'm missing something basic.
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