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→Upgrading the nVidia Drivers
This page details the build of our [[DIGITS DevBox]]. There's also a page giving information on [[Using the DevBox]]. nVIDIA, famous for their incredibly poor supply-chain and inventory management, have been saying [https://developer.nvidia.com/devbo "Please note that we are sold out of our inventory of the DIGITS DevBox, and no new systems are being built"] since shortly after the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_10_series Titax X] was the latest and greatest thing (i.e., somewhere around 2016). But it's pretty straight forward to update [https://www.azken.com/download/DIGITS_DEVBOX_DESIGN_GUIDE.pdf their spec].
==Introduction==
The DevBox is currently unavailable from Amazon [https://www.amazon.com/Lambda-Deep-Learning-DevBox-Preinstalled/dp/B01BCDK1KC], and at around $15k buying one is prohibitive for most people. Some firms, including Lamdba Labs [https://lambdalabs.com/deep-learning/workstations/4-gpu], Bizon-tech [https://bizon-tech.com/us/bizon-g3000], are selling variants on them, but their prices are high too and the details on their specs are limited (the MoBo and config details are missing entirely).
But the parts ' cost is perhaps $4-5k now for a massive update to the original spec! So this page goes through everything required to put one together and get it up and running.
==Hardware==
And change into the sample directory and run the tests:
cd /usr/local/cuda-10.10/samples/bin/x86_64/linux/release ./deviceQuery ./bandwidthTest
Everything should be good at this point!
sudo apt-get install tightvncserver
vncserver
set password for user (ailia)
vncserver -kill :1
mv ~/.vnc/xstartup ~/.vnc/xstartup.bak
'''Ignoring the SSH tunnel worked fine: Connect to 192.168.2.202::5902 using the TightVNC (or RealVNC, etc.) client.'''
====Later Notes====
=====Change the resolution=====
I came back and changed the resolution to make it work on one of my portrait desktop monitors.
See https://www.tightvnc.com/vncserver.1.php
As root:
vi /etc/systemd/system/vncserver@.service
Change line:
ExecStart=/usr/bin/vncserver -depth 24 -geometry 1440x2560 :%i
(Note that the size is 2160x3840 divide by 150%). Leave the color depth as it says elsewhere that changes are bad.
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable vncserver@2.service
As Ed:
vncserver -kill :2
sudo systemctl start vncserver@2
sudo systemctl status vncserver@2
Exit full screen with ctrl-alt-shift-f.
=====Cut And Paste=====
Also, try to fix the cut-and-paste issue. See, for example, https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/35030/how-can-i-copy-paste-data-to-and-from-the-windows-clipboard-to-an-opensuse-clipb
As root:
apt-get install autocutsel
vi ~/.vnc/xstartup
#!/bin/bash
xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
autocutsel -fork
startxfce4 &
Though this might have been working fine anyway. Just change the terminal and all will be well.
=====Use XFCE terminal=====
Change Settings: Preferred Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal to XFCE
Note that this seems to fix everything but the instructions for customizing the menu are here: https://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu
cat /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu
===RDP===
*AWS Toolkit
Make a launcher: In /usr/share/applications, :
vi pycharm.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Terminal=false
StartupWMClass=jetbrains-pycharm
Also, create a launcher on the desktop with the same info.
Note that when I came back to the box the launcher didn't work...
==== MATLAB ====
I installed MATLAB R2024a by downloading the zip, running
sudo ./install
and using the defaults of /usr/local/MATLAB/R2024 etc. The license number is 41201644.
===Upgrading the nVIDIA Drivers===
In MATLAB, I ran:
gpuDevice
Error using gpuDevice (line 26)
Graphics driver is out of date. Download and install the latest graphics driver for your GPU from NVIDIA.
Some quick checks showed that I was using driver version 430.26 on ubuntu 18.04.02.
nvidia-smi
lsb_release -a
I couldn't quite get MATLAB to tell me what I needed:
* https://www.mathworks.com/help/parallel-computing/gpu-computing-requirements.html
* https://www.mathworks.com/help/parallel-computing/run-mex-functions-containing-cuda-code.html#mw_20acaa78-994d-4695-ab4b-bca1cfc3dbac
For MEX, I have 10.2 and need 12.2 of the CUDA toolkit:
MATLAB Release CUDA Toolkit Version
R2024a 12.2
...
R2020b 10.2
However:
* nVidia said the latest version was https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/230357/en-us/
* The repo said the highest version for 18.04 is 545: https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
As root:
runlevel
#5
systemctl get-default
#graphical.target
systemctl set-default multi-user.target
systemctl reboot
As ed:
vncserver -kill :2
Killing Xtightvnc process ID 1844
As root:
#sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-550.107.02.run
# The distribution-provided pre-install script failed!
#cat /var/log/nvidia-installer.log
apt-get update
apt install nvidia-driver-545
systemctl set-default graphical.target
systemctl reboot
Run MATLAB
gpuDevice
Name: 'NVIDIA TITAN RTX'
Index: 1
ComputeCapability: '7.5'
GraphicsDriverVersion: '545.29.06'
ToolkitVersion: 12.2000
gpuDevice(2)
Name: 'NVIDIA TITAN Xp'
Index: 2
ComputeCapability: '6.1'
SupportsDouble: 1
GraphicsDriverVersion: '545.29.06'
ToolkitVersion: 12.2000
The messages were:
apt install nvidia-driver-545
The following additional packages will be installed:
libnvidia-cfg1-545 libnvidia-common-545 libnvidia-compute-545 libnvidia-compute-545:i386 libnvidia-decode-545
libnvidia-decode-545:i386 libnvidia-encode-545 libnvidia-encode-545:i386 libnvidia-extra-545 libnvidia-fbc1-545
libnvidia-fbc1-545:i386 libnvidia-gl-545 libnvidia-gl-545:i386 nvidia-compute-utils-545 nvidia-dkms-545
nvidia-firmware-545-545.29.06 nvidia-kernel-common-545 nvidia-kernel-source-545 nvidia-utils-545
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-545
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libnvidia-cfg1-430 libnvidia-common-430 libnvidia-compute-430 libnvidia-compute-430:i386 libnvidia-decode-430
libnvidia-decode-430:i386 libnvidia-encode-430 libnvidia-encode-430:i386 libnvidia-fbc1-430 libnvidia-fbc1-430:i386
libnvidia-gl-430 libnvidia-gl-430:i386 libnvidia-ifr1-430 libnvidia-ifr1-430:i386 nvidia-compute-utils-430 nvidia-dkms-430
nvidia-driver-430 nvidia-kernel-common-430 nvidia-kernel-source-430 nvidia-utils-430 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-430
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libnvidia-cfg1-545 libnvidia-common-545 libnvidia-compute-545 libnvidia-compute-545:i386 libnvidia-decode-545
libnvidia-decode-545:i386 libnvidia-encode-545 libnvidia-encode-545:i386 libnvidia-extra-545 libnvidia-fbc1-545
libnvidia-fbc1-545:i386 libnvidia-gl-545 libnvidia-gl-545:i386 nvidia-compute-utils-545 nvidia-dkms-545 nvidia-driver-545
nvidia-firmware-545-545.29.06 nvidia-kernel-common-545 nvidia-kernel-source-545 nvidia-utils-545
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-545
0 upgraded, 21 newly installed, 21 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
