[michaelt]

It would be nice if there was an AMI for the latest LTS version of Ubuntu with the CUDA drivers installed and working.

Last time I tried some CUDA work on AWS I spent the best part of a day trying to just get the drivers set up right for a basic test app to work on 14.04 - eventually I gave up and went back to 12.04 which, in 2015, didn't give me much confidence in CUDA as something I can expect decent support for.

[alepper]

I have this kicking around from some experiments a month or two ago:

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-image-extra-virtual
    sudo reboot
    echo options nouveau modeset=0 | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau-kms.conf
    cat > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
    blacklist nouveau
    blacklist lbm-nouveau
    options nouveau modeset=0
    alias nouveau off
    alias lbm-nouveau off
    <Ctrl+D>
    sudo update-initramfs -u
    sudo reboot
    sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
    wget http://uk.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/346.35/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-346.35.run
    chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-346.35.run
    sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-346.35.run
    nvidia-smi -q | less

This is obviously not production-ready, and is heavily cribbed from online (I couldn't quickly re-find where) but is good enough if you just want to play.

EDIT: I think this was the original: http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2015/01/install-nvidia-3...

[moonbug]

Canonical's packaging of the Nvidia drivers is risible. It really is easier just to pull the driver and CUDA installers from the nv site and install manually. Or use the Amazon Linux AMIs which just DTRT.

[msoad]

Yes, considering how expensive(in terms of price per hour) it is to just manually install drivers on those machines.