# Install various packages sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade -y # choose “install package maintainers version” sudo apt-get install -y build-essential python-pip python-dev git # same # Blacklist Noveau which has some kind of conflict with the nvidia driver echo -e "blacklist nouveau\nblacklist lbm-nouveau\noptions nouveau modeset=0\nalias nouveau off\nalias lbm-nouveau off\n" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf echo options nouveau modeset=0 | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau-kms.conf sudo update-initramfs -u sudo reboot # Reboot (annoying you have to do this in 2015!) # Some other annoying thing we have to do sudo apt-get install -y linux-image-extra-virtual sudo reboot # Not sure why this is needed # Install latest Linux headers sudo apt-get install -y linux-source linux-headers-`uname -r` # Install CUDA 7.0 wget http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/7_0/Prod/local_installers/cuda_7.0.28_linux.run chmod +x cuda_7.0.28_linux.run ./cuda_7.0.28_linux.run -extract=`pwd`/nvidia_installers cd nvidia_installers sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-346.46.run sudo modprobe nvidia sudo ./cuda-linux64-rel-7.0.28-19326674.run cd # Install tensorflow sudo pip install https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/gpu/tensorflow-0.5.0-cp27-none-linux_x86_64.whl export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/cuda/lib64" export CUDA_HOME=/usr/local/cuda # Clone source as well (for examples) git clone https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow cd tensorflow/tensorflow/models/image/mnist python convolutional.py # At this point, it breaks down. It works, but doesn't use the GPU. On g2.2xlarge: # I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:611] Ignoring gpu device (device: 0, name: GRID K520, pci bus id: 0000:00:03.0) with Cuda compute capability 3.0. The minimum required Cuda capability is 3.5. # On g2.8xlarge: # I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:611] Ignoring gpu device (device: 0, name: GRID K520, pci bus id: 0000:00:03.0) with Cuda compute capability 3.0. The minimum required Cuda capability is 3.5. # I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:611] Ignoring gpu device (device: 1, name: GRID K520, pci bus id: 0000:00:04.0) with Cuda compute capability 3.0. The minimum required Cuda capability is 3.5. # I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:611] Ignoring gpu device (device: 2, name: GRID K520, pci bus id: 0000:00:05.0) with Cuda compute capability 3.0. The minimum required Cuda capability is 3.5. # I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:611] Ignoring gpu device (device: 3, name: GRID K520, pci bus id: 0000:00:06.0) with Cuda compute capability 3.0. The minimum required Cuda capability is 3.5.