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  • At SkyHiGh (IIK's production instance):
    • General purpose flavors, all IIK affiliates are eligible:
      • dx5.8c90r.v100-8g: A flavor with 90GB RAM, 8 vCPU's and a 1/4 of a Tesla v100 (8GB GPU-RAM).
      • de3.12c60r.a100-10g: A flavor with 60GB RAM, 12 vCPUs and 1/4 of a Tesla A100 (10GB GPU-RAM)

    • Flavors only available for SFI NORCICS:
      • de3.24c120r.a100-20g: A flavor with 120GB RAM, 24 vCPUs and 1/2 of a Tesla A100 (20GB GPU-RAM)
      • Only available for SFI NORCICS
      • de3.48c240r.a100-40g: A flavor with 240GB RAM, 48 vCPUS and 1/1 of a Tesla A100 (40GB GPU-RAM)
        Only
    • Flavors only available for SFI NORCICSNorwegian Biomtetrics Lab:
      • dx4
      dx5
      • .24c60r.p40-24g: A flavor with 60GB RAM, 24 vCPUs and 1/1 of a Tesla P40 (24GB GPU-RAM)
      • Only available for Norwegian Biometrics Lab
      • de2.24c240r.a100-20g: A flavor with 240GB RAM, 24 vCPU's and 1/2 of a Tesla A100 (20GB GPU-RAM)
      • Only available for Norwegian Biometrics Lab
      • de3.24c120r.a100d-20g: A flavor with 120GB RAM, 24 vCPU's and 1/4 of a Tesla A100 80GB (20GB GPU-RAM)
      • Only available for Norwegian Biometrics lab

  • At SkyLow (IIK's development instance):
    • dx4.8c20r.m10-8G: A flavor with 20GB RAM, 8 vCPU's and one core of a Tesla M10 card (8GB GPU-RAM).
    • dx4.24c110r.p100: A flavor with 110GB RAM, 24 vCPU's and a Tesla p100 card (16GB GPU-RAM)
    • dx4.48c220r.2p100: A flavor with 220GB RAM, 48 vCPU's and two Tesla p100 cards (2*16GB GPU-RAM)

  • At stackit (NTNU IT's At stackit (NTNU IT's production platform):
    • dx4.28c120r.a100-20g: A flavor with 120GB RAM, 28vCPU's and 1/2 of a Tesla a100 (20GB GPU-RAM)
    • dx5s.96c470r.a100d-80g.e3400g: A flavor with 470GB RAM, 96 vCPUs and a Tesla a100d (80 GB GPU-RAM) and 3.4TiB with compute-local flash storage.
      • Only available for an IV-EPT project.

GPU-enabled images

We provide images an image with pre-installed Nvidia driver and CUDA package. These images This image contains the word "GRID" in their names its name and are regular ubuntu/centOS images a regular Ubuntu Server LTS image with the following additions:

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The installation of the drivers requires a restart; so the newly created instance will reboot shortly after creation.

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Many of our GPU users will probably need Nvidia's cuDNN library. This is not pre-installed in our imagesimage, because Nvidia requires all users to register for the Nvidia Developer Program before dowloading. So, please follow the instructions here, to install it on your VM; and use tar file options. DO NOT USE THE DEB OR RPM ALTERNATIVE. Be sure to download the cuDNN version that corresponds to our current CUDA version.

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Code Block
ubuntu@gputest:~$ journalctl -u nvidia-gridd | tail 
Sep 04 08:54:23 jammy-gpu systemd[1]: Starting NVIDIA Grid Daemon.... 
JanSep 0504 0708:4454:5724 gputestjammy-gpu nvidia-gridd[694724]: Acquiring license.Started (Info: http://openstack-nvidia.lisens.ntnu.no:7070/request; NVIDIA Virtual Compute Server)
Jan 05 07:44:57 gputest724)
Sep 04 08:54:24 jammy-gpu systemd[1]: Started NVIDIA Grid Daemon.
Sep 04 08:54:24 jammy-gpu nvidia-gridd[694724]: Configuration Calling load_byte_array(tra)
Jan 05 07:44:59 gputestparameter ( ServerAddress  ) not set
Sep 04 08:54:24 jammy-gpu nvidia-gridd[694724]: LicensevGPU acquiredSoftware successfully.package (Info: http://openstack-nvidia.lisens.ntnu.no:7070/request; NVIDIA Virtual Compute Server)

The "nvidia-smi" tool will show you the GPU status

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Sep 04 08:54:24 jammy-gpu nvidia-gridd[724]: Ignore service provider and node-locked licensing
Sep 04 08:54:24 jammy-gpu nvidia-gridd[724]: NLS initialized
Sep 04 08:54:24 jammy-gpu nvidia-gridd[724]: Acquiring license. (Info: nvidiadls02.it.ntnu.no; NVIDIA Virtual Compute Server)
Sep 04 08:54:27 jammy-gpu nvidia-gridd[724]: License acquired successfully. (Info: nvidiadls02.it.ntnu.no, NVIDIA Virtual Compute Server; Expiry: 2023-9-5 8:54:16 GMT)

The "nvidia-smi" tool will show you the GPU status

Code Block
ubuntu@gputest:~$ nvidia-smi 
Mon Sep  4 08:58:11 2023       
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ubuntu@gputest:~$ nvidia-smi
Thu Jan  5 07:46:10 2023       
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 470525.82125.0106    Driver Version: 470525.82125.01 06   CUDA Version: 1112.40     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GRID A100V100D-4C 8C       On   | 00000000:00:05.0 Off |                    0N/A |
| N/A   N/A    P0    N/A /  N/A |    407MiB / 0MiB 4091MiB/  8192MiB |      0%      Default |
|                               |                      |             Disabled |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Starting from CUDA 12.x, the samples are no longer included in the install packages. If you want to verify that the GPU/license works, you have to download them from github:

Code Block
$ git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-samples.git


And the you can compile and run a sampleThere are some CUDA-tools installed in /root of your VM that can be used to test that the GPU works. For instance you could do like so:

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ubuntu@gputestubuntu@jammy-gpu:~$ sudo su -
root@gputest:~# cd NVIDIA_CUDA-11.4_cuda-samples/Samples/1_Utilities/deviceQuery
root@gputestubuntu@jammy-gpu:~/NVIDIA_CUDA-11.4_cuda-samples/Samples/1_Utilities/deviceQuery#deviceQuery$ make
  ... lots-of-text-from-make ... 
root@gputestubuntu@jammy-gpu:~/NVIDIA_CUDA-11.4_cuda-samples/Samples/1_Utilities/deviceQuery#deviceQuery$ ./deviceQuery 
./deviceQuery Starting...

 CUDA Device Query (Runtime API) version (CUDART static linking)

Detected 1 CUDA Capable device(s)

Device 0: "GRID A100V100D-4C8C"
  CUDA Driver Version / Runtime Version          1112.40 / 1112.40
  CUDA Capability Major/Minor version number:    87.0
  Total amount of global memory:                 40928192 MBytes (42906419208589934592 bytes)
  (108080) Multiprocessors, (064) CUDA Cores/MP:    69125120 CUDA Cores
  GPU Max Clock rate:                            14101380 MHz (1.4138 GHz)
  Memory Clock rate:                             1215877 Mhz
  Memory Bus Width:                              51204096-bit
  L2 Cache Size:                                 419430406291456 bytes
  Maximum Texture Dimension Size (x,y,z)         1D=(131072), 2D=(131072, 65536), 3D=(16384, 16384, 16384)
  Maximum Layered 1D Texture Size, (num) layers  1D=(32768), 2048 layers
  Maximum Layered 2D Texture Size, (num) layers  2D=(32768, 32768), 2048 layers
  Total amount of constant memory:               65536 bytes
  Total amount of shared memory per block:       49152 bytes
  Total shared memory per multiprocessor:        16793698304 bytes
  Total number of registers available per block: 65536
  Warp size:                                     32
  Maximum number of threads per multiprocessor:  2048
  Maximum number of threads per block:           1024
  Max dimension size of a thread block (x,y,z): (1024, 1024, 64)
  Max dimension size of a grid size    (x,y,z): (2147483647, 65535, 65535)
  Maximum memory pitch:                          2147483647 bytes
  Texture alignment:                             512 bytes
  Concurrent copy and kernel execution:          Yes with 37 copy engine(s)
  Run time limit on kernels:                     No
  Integrated GPU sharing Host Memory:            No
  Support host page-locked memory mapping:       Yes
  Alignment requirement for Surfaces:            Yes
  Device has ECC support:                        EnabledDisabled
  Device supports Unified Addressing (UVA):      Yes
  Device supports Managed Memory:                No
  Device supports Compute Preemption:            Yes
  Supports Cooperative Kernel Launch:            Yes
  Supports MultiDevice Co-op Kernel Launch:      Yes
  Device PCI Domain ID / Bus ID / location ID:   0 / 0 / 5
  Compute Mode:
     < Default (multiple host threads can use ::cudaSetDevice() with device simultaneously) >

deviceQuery, CUDA Driver = CUDART, CUDA Driver Version = 1112.40, CUDA Runtime Version = 1112.40, NumDevs = 1
Result = PASS

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Code Block
# Enable the repositories
distribution=$(. /etc/os-release;echo $ID$VERSION_ID) \
   && curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/gpgkey | sudo apt-key add - \
   && curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/$distribution/nvidia-docker.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-docker.list

# Install the package
sudo apt update && sudo apt -y install nvidia-docker2

# Restart the docker daemon
sudo systemctl restart docker

# Run a test to verifiy that it works
sudo docker run --rm --gpus all nvidia/cuda:1112.40.01-base-ubuntu22.04 nvidia-smi

# Optionally run a test with Tensorflow that actually runs a bit of code on the GPU via docker
sudo docker run --gpus all -it --rm tensorflow/tensorflow:latest2.14.0-gpu \
   python -c "import tensorflow as tf; print(tf.reduce_sum(tf.random.normal([1000, 1000])))"

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