CUDA® is a parallel computing platform and programming model developed by NVIDIA for general computing on graphical processing units (GPUs). With CUDA, developers are able to dramatically speed up computing applications by harnessing the power of GPUs.
We will install NVIDIA CUDA on a Debian 10 server. Run the following commands as user root. If you are logged in with sudo user, you can run the command “sudo su” to become user root.
Add NVIDIA repository
apt install software-properties-common -y add-apt-repository "deb https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/debian10/x86_64/ /" apt-key adv --fetch-keys https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/debian10/x86_64/7fa2af80.pub
Enable the contrib repository
add-apt-repository contrib
Update the apt cache
apt-get --allow-releaseinfo-change update
Install cuda
apt-get -y install cuda
To find Nvidia driver version, you can run the command cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
root@sok-1:~# cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 470.103.01 Thu Jan 6 12:10:04 UTC 2022 GCC version: gcc version 8.3.0 (Debian 8.3.0-6) root@sok-1:~#
cuda installed in folder /usr/local/cuda-11.4/bin/, to find version, run
root@sok-1:~# /usr/local/cuda-11.4/bin/nvcc -V nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver Copyright (c) 2005-2021 NVIDIA Corporation Built on Mon_Oct_11_21:27:02_PDT_2021 Cuda compilation tools, release 11.4, V11.4.152 Build cuda_11.4.r11.4/compiler.30521435_0 root@sok-1:~#
Add the folder to PATH, edit the file
vi ~/.bashrc
Add following
if [ -d "/usr/local/cuda-11.4/bin/" ]; then
export PATH=/usr/local/cuda-11.4/bin${PATH:+:${PATH}}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda-11.4/lib64${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}}
fi
Save and exit the file. Reload .bashrc with
source ~/.bashrc
You can find more info on NVIDIA driver with the command
nvidia-smi
