Synopsis
Save your PC/server in CUDA driver crashed down.
Prequisite
- Host machine: A PC/laptop/server with Intel/AMDx86 architeture and Ubuntu installed, can be connected to network.
- Physical disk: >10GB available.
- sudo
Remove old driver
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| sudo apt purge nvidia*
sudo apt purge cuda*
sudo apt clean
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
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Follow instructions in NVIDIA official website
For example: NVIDIA
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| sudo reboot
export PATH=/usr/local/cuda/bin:$PATH
# or write into ~/.bashrc
nvcc --version
# check nvcc for verfication
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Download cuDNN package and copy them into CUDA PATH
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| wget ...
sudo dpkg -i ...
ls | grep cudnn | xargs -I{} sudo cp {} /usr/local/cuda/include
ls | grep cudnn | xargs -I{} sudo cp {} /usr/local/cuda/lib64
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Or goes to NVIDIA Official Site to download: https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn
Verification
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| sudo apt-get install libfreeimage3 libfreeimage-dev # install dependencies
cp -r /usr/src/cudnn_samples_v8/ ~
cd cudnn_samples_v8/
cd mnistCUDNN/
make
./mnistCUDNN
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