can i run nvidia dependent product on ubuntu vm from compute engine?

[Erjan G.]

i have started an instance of ubuntu on gcp. I installed ubuntu desktop and connected to my machine using Nomachine. All fine.

I have some small pet project that needs nvidia drivers and cuda. I only need to test it with some rest api. I m building this rest api. The voice recognition model is trained and just needs nvidia driver>410.

what is my ubuntu? is it a VM? do i have access to physical gpu graphics card? This is what bothers me - i read on forums that to use  graphics card - ubuntu OS must be installed not running in virtual mode.

my question - can my ubuntu on gcp use/run nvidia drivers? or it can't cuz it's purely a virtual machine?

[Aakash Gupta]

To answer your question - Yes, you get a GPU. 

Theres also an option to spin a multi-Gpu VM. 

Did you try spinning up a deep learning VM. 

You get the option to pre - install the nvidia drivers. 

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[Md Mahboob Sayeed Khan]

Hi Erjan,

According to the doc [1], you can install NVIDIA GPU drivers in ubuntu and also be able to verify that using the command “nvidia-smi”. This command will let you know that the driver is running properly.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/gpus/install-drivers-gpu#ubuntu

Thanks

[Erjan G.]

thx u, i tried all that stuff on my local pc and failed, now reverting back to gcp :)))

so the instance i launch - it does have physical hardware? it's not just a VM? i mean it does have some physical nvidia drivers - and i just need to install nvidia software to recognize it?

[Md Shafiqul Islam]

Hello,

 

Compute Engine provides graphics processing units (GPUs) that you can add to your virtual machine instances. 

 

You will need to follow the documentation [1] to create a instance with a GPU and will need to follow the documentation [2] which is to install the GPU driver on your instance so that your system can use the device.

 

 

[1] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/gpus/add-gpus#create-new-gpu-instance

[2] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/gpus/install-drivers-gpu

[Erjan G.]

sir thx u for this quick reply!  i have launched ubuntu instance 2h ago and installed ubuntu desktop on top of it myself. i used nomachine program to connect remotely. all fine.

however - that vm instance is 'vCPU' - it means it has no gpu in it - do i need to start a new instance with gpu support or i can "attach" gpu to existing ?

[Hasanul Murad]

You can add or detach GPUS on your existing instance, but you must first stop the instance and change its host maintenance setting so that it terminates rather than live-migrating.