Installing NVIDIA CUDA

Procedure

1. Use PuTTY to log in to the server as the root user.
2. Check whether the Nouveau driver is disabled.

   lsmod |grep nouveau

   • If a command output is displayed, the Nouveau driver is not disabled. In this case, perform 3.
   • If no command output is displayed, the Nouveau driver is disabled. In this case, perform 4.
3. Disable the Nouveau driver.
   1. Create a disable-nouveau.conf file.

      vi /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nouveau.conf

   2. Press i to enter the insert mode and add the following content:

      blacklist nouveau
      options nouveau modeset=0

   3. Press Esc, type wq!, and press Enter to save the file and exit.
4. Install NVIDIA CUDA.

   wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/11.4.0/local_installers/cuda_11.4.0_470.42.01_linux_sbsa.run
   sudo shcuda_11.4.0_470.42.01_linux_sbsa.run

5. Set the environment variables.

   export PATH=/usr/local/cuda-11.4/bin:$PATH
   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda-11.4/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

6. Perform the verification.

   nvcc --version

   If the command output contains the NVIDIA CUDA component version information, the installation is successful.