Installing NVIDIA drivers

To enable compatibility with GPU, make sure that NVIDIA drivers are installed on the VM. You can install the drivers either when preparing the image or from inside the VM after it is created.

Drivers for Tesla® V100Drivers for Tesla® V100

To install the drivers for NVIDIA® Tesla® V100:

1. Go to the form page.
2. Select Data Center / Tesla in the Product type field.
3. Select V-Series in the Product series field.
4. Select Tesla V100 in the Product family field.
5. Select the OS in the Operating system field.
6. Specify other settings according to your OS and driver requirements.
7. Click Search. The appropriate driver page opens.
8. Click Download now.
9. Run the downloaded installer and follow the instructions.

Drivers for Ampere® A100Drivers for Ampere® A100

In Compute Cloud, there are two available configurations for VMs based on AMD EPYC® with NVIDIA® Ampere® A100: with 1 GPU and 8 GPUs. For the 8 GPU configuration, you should additionally install Fabric Manager.

To install the drivers for NVIDIA® Ampere® A100:

1. Go to the form page.
2. Select Data Center / Tesla in the Product type field.
3. Select A-Series in the Product series field.
4. Select NVIDIA A100 in the Product family field.
5. Select the OS in the Operating system field.
6. Specify other settings according to your OS and driver requirements.
7. Click Search. The appropriate driver page opens.
8. Click Download now.
9. Run the downloaded installer and follow the instructions.

To install and configure Fabric Manager:

1. In the terminal, run:

   sudo apt install -y nvidia-driver-<driver_version>-server nvidia-utils-<driver_version>-server nvidia-fabricmanager-<driver_version>
   sudo systemctl enable nvidia-fabricmanager
   sudo systemctl start nvidia-fabricmanager
   

   Note

   When installing, specify the required driver version (for example, 460).

2. Test Fabric Manager:

   nvidia-smi nvlink -s