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Installing NVIDIA CUDA on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) machine (Ubuntu 14.04)

Disclaimer: I wrote this post several months ago and did not publish it for unknown reason, I assume that the information below is still relevant and correct.

While trying to install the machine, I started my research by reading Traun Leyden's great blog post: http://tleyden.github.io/blog/2014/10/25/cuda-6-dot-5-on-aws-gpu-instance-running-ubuntu-14-dot-04/ (you should too)

Amazon offers two types of machines that includes GPUs (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/#g2)
High-performance NVIDIA GPUs, each with 1,536 CUDA cores and 4GB of video memory
While writing this post, I used the g2.2xlarge machine, but you can also use the 8xlarge.

This will be quick and simple:

1. Make sure you are fully up-to-date
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
 When prompted, choose the "install maintainer package...."

2. Reboot the machine (so it will load the new kernel)
3. Install the kernel's header files
sudo apt-get install -y linux-image-extra-virtual linux-headers-`uname -r`
3. Configure the xorg-edgers PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
4. Install the NVIDIA's CUDA repository package
OUTPUT_PATH=/tmp/cuda.deb
wget http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1404/x86_64/cuda-repo-ubuntu1404_7.0-28_amd64.deb -O ${OUTPUT_PATH}
dpkg -i ${OUTPUT_PATH}

 5. Update the package manager and install CUDA
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cuda
6. Make sure everything is installed as expected:
sudo nvidia-smi -a

7. You can also compile and run a sample to make sure everything is ready:
cd /usr/local/cuda/samples/1_Utilities/deviceQuery
make
./deviceQuery

That's all!


- Tal Kain

Comments

  1. Well, pretty well... thanks for the detailed explanation, for NVIDIA GK104 everything works fine, the only one for NVidia drivers download for Windows http://bitdrivers.com/manufacturers/nvidia (64Х) since the previous ones are outdated and weren't connecting with my OS/

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