CentOS 7.x NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit installation
Will finish this later; just remember the site you were using had all the names wrong... it should be dashes, not dots.
Pre-requisites
- CentOS 7.x installed
- Depending on what CUDA Toolkit version you want, view the versions and compatible NVIDIA drivers below
- NVIDIA driver installed
CUDA Toolkit | Linux x86_64 Driver Version |
CUDA 10.0 (10.0.130) | >= 410.48 |
CUDA 9.2 (9.2.88) | >= 396.26 |
CUDA 9.1 (9.1.85) | >= 390.46 |
CUDA 9.0 (9.0.76) | >= 384.81 |
CUDA 8.0 (8.0.61 GA2) | >= 375.26 |
CUDA 8.0 (8.0.44) | >= 367.48 |
CUDA 7.5 (7.5.16) | >= 352.31 |
CUDA 7.0 (7.0.28) | >= 346.46 |
Instructions
For my example, I am installing CUDA 10.0 with NVIDIA driver 410.79 installed.
Step 1: Download the latest Nvidia CUDA repository package.
Full list here: https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/rhel7/x86_64/
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/rhel7/x86_64/cuda-repo-rhel7-10.0.130-1.x86_64.rpm
Step 2: Install the CUDA repository package you just downloaded
rpm -i cuda-repo-*.rpm
Step 3: Use 'yum install' to install your desired meta package
In my example:
yum install -y cuda-10-0
Highly recommend against installing the meta packages that handles upgrades to the next version automatically, best to perform the NVIDIA driver installation separately, and then carefully choosing the NVIDIA CUDA toolkit you require.
Meta Package | Purpose |
---|---|
cuda | Installs all CUDA Toolkit and Driver packages. Handles upgrading to the next version of the cuda package when it's released. |
cuda-10-0 | Installs all CUDA Toolkit and Driver packages. Remains at version 10.0 until an additional version of CUDA is installed. |
cuda-toolkit-10-0 | Installs all CUDA Toolkit packages required to develop CUDA applications. Does not include the driver. |
cuda-tools-10-0 | Installs all CUDA command line and visual tools. |
cuda-runtime-10-0 | Installs all CUDA Toolkit packages required to run CUDA applications, as well as the Driver packages. |
cuda-compiler-10-0 | Installs all CUDA compiler packages. |
cuda-libraries-10-0 | Installs all runtime CUDA Library packages. |
cuda-libraries-dev-10-0 | Installs all development CUDA Library packages. |
cuda-drivers | Installs all Driver packages. Handles upgrading to the next version of the Driver packages when they're released. |
Full list of meta packages was taken from NVIDIA documents linked below:
https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html#package-manager-metas
Step 4: Export system path to NVIDIA CUDA binary executables
Add the following to '/root/.bashrc' by using your preferred text editor:
export PATH=/usr/local/cuda/bin:$PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
My example below:
nano /root/.bashrc # .bashrc # User specific aliases and functions alias rm='rm -i' alias cp='cp -i' alias mv='mv -i' # Source global definitions if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then . /etc/bashrc fi export PATH=/usr/local/cuda/bin:$PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Step 5: Source recently updated '.bashrc' file
source /root/.bashrc
Step 6: Validate CUDA installation
nvcc --version
My example:
nvcc --version nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver Copyright (c) 2005-2018 NVIDIA Corporation Built on Sat_Aug_25_21:08:01_CDT_2018 Cuda compilation tools, release 10.0, V10.0.130
Step 7: Install CUDA samples and further tests by compiling CUDA programs in the 'cuda-samples'
mkdir cuda-samples cuda-install-samples-10.0.sh cuda-samples/ cd cuda-samples/NVIDIA_CUDA-10.0_Samples/0_Simple/simpleCallback make
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