I cannot find gpu in Standard NC6_Promo (6 vcpus, 56 GiB memory) instance

Question

Hi all. 

I just spun up an virtual machine (Standard NC6_Promo (6 vcpus, 56 GiB memory) instance) but I don't seem to find gpu on the machine. 

(cv_proj_1) kamoliddinov@elbek-gpu:~/cv-final$ sudo lshw -C display
  *-display                 
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Hyper-V virtual VGA
       vendor: Microsoft Corporation
       physical id: 8
       bus info: pci@0000:00:08.0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: vga_controller bus_master rom
       configuration: driver=hyperv_fb latency=0
       resources: irq:11 memory:f8000000-fbffffff memory:c0000-dffff
  *-display UNCLAIMED
       description: 3D controller
       product: GK210GL [Tesla K80]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 1
       bus info: pci@84c4:00:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: iomemory:100-ff iomemory:140-13f memory:41000000-41ffffff memory:1000000000-13ffffffff memory:1400000000-1401ffffff

Also pytorch confirms it:

(cv_proj_1) kamoliddinov@elbek-gpu:~/cv-final$ python
Python 3.6.7 |Anaconda, Inc.| (default, Oct 23 2018, 19:16:44) 
[GCC 7.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import torch
>>> print(torch.rand(2,3).cuda())
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/kamoliddinov/miniconda3/envs/cv_proj_1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/cuda/__init__.py", line 192, in _lazy_init
    _check_driver()
  File "/home/kamoliddinov/miniconda3/envs/cv_proj_1/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/cuda/__init__.py", line 102, in _check_driver
    http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx""")
AssertionError: 
Found no NVIDIA driver on your system. Please check that you
have an NVIDIA GPU and installed a driver from
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

I thought NC6 has a Nvidia gpu, what am doing wrong? 

Any help is appreciated, 

Answer 1

HI,

I'm unsure as to what the command is trying to output or what it queries, but the NC series do have an NVIDIA Tesla GPU in them?

Could this be an issue with what your command is querying?  (apologies if that seems a silly question but I dont know what your command is calling).

Thanks,

Matt

Answer 2

Hi,

Looks like you dont have the NVIDIA drivers on that server.

Please follow this document to install the required extension. Two options are there in the document to install the extensions.

One is the maual methos. Other one is installing an Azure extension which installs the required drivers.  Going through the Azure extensions way will be easire.

Both the methods are discussed on the doc.

After installation, You can verify them. Steps are available in the doc itself.

Install them and then try to execute the your python program.

Let me know if you have error after that also.

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