
Cuda 8.0 Driver For Osx
Nvidia GPUs receive driver updates soon after each version update of OS X. Only one driver is released by Nvidia and it includes support for all of their modern GPUs. You will not find individually named Nvidia drivers for OS X, they are all titled 'Quadro & Geforce Mac OS X Driver Release xxx.xx.xxxxx'.
Get Nvidia Cuda compiler version first
$ nvcc –version
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2016 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Wed_May__4_21:01:56_CDT_2016
Cuda compilation tools, release 8.0, V8.0.26
Check Ubuntu version:
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
Check NVidia Driver version:
$ nvidia-smi
NVIDIA: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 370.28,
but this NVIDIA driver component has version 304.132. Please make
sure that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components
have the same version.
Failed to initialize NVML: Unknown Error
Get updated Nvidia driver from the link below:
Visit: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads
Select proper OS version, architecture, distribution, version and installer then download the full driver locally:
Alternatively use the link below to download the 1.9GB driver:
$ wget https://developer.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/8.0/prod/local_installers/cuda-repo-ubuntu1604-8-0-local_8.0.44-1_amd64-deb
Install the downloaded CUDA 8.0.44 from the local file:
$ sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1604-8-0-local_8.0.44-1_amd64-deb
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get -f upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install cuda
Note: If there are errors, retry above commands.
Finally reboot the EC2 Instance or your machine:
$ sudo reboot
Now try your Nvidia version again:
$ nvidia-smi
Thu Nov 10 06:24:00 2016
+———————————————————————–+
NVIDIA-SMI 367.57 Driver Version: 367.57
——————————-+—————+———————-+
GPU Name Persistence-M Bus-Id Disp.A Volatile Uncorr. ECC
Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap Memory-Usage GPU-Util Compute M.
++
0 GRID K520 Off 0000:00:03.0 Off N/A
N/A 33C P0 1W / 125W 0MiB / 4036MiB 0% Default
+——————————-+————–+———————-+
+———————————————————————+
Processes: GPU Memory
GPU PID Type Process name Usage
No running processes found
+———————————————————————-+
Upgrading nvidia driver to 370 or above:
$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-370
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If above command gives error “Unable to locate package nvidia-370” try the following:
- $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
- $ sudo apt-get update
- $ sudo apt-get install nvidia-370
- $ sudo apt-get install nvidia-370-dev
Finally check the Nvidia Compiler version:
$ nvcc –version
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2016 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Sun_Sep__4_22:14:01_CDT_2016
Cuda compilation tools, release 8.0, V8.0.44
Note: if you still nvcc as 7.5 then do the following:
REBOOT is necessary after update above.
- Check nvcc 8.0 is at /usr/local/cuda/bin
- export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/cuda/bin
- Check path
- now check nvcc