Amazon Linux AMI with NVIDIA TESLA GPU Driver
NVIDIA | 2018.03.0.20201028.0Linux/Unix, Amazon Linux 2018.03 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Outdated version of the driver
The image features version 352.99 of the driver which is incompatible with CUDA-8.0/cuDNN-6. In my case that kind of diminishes the purpose of having such an AMI in the first place.
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why not up to date?
Uses old version of CUDA which is incompatible.
The whole point of using an AMI is that it works out of the box without having to install drivers. This is useless as not up to date and incompatible with other software.
Useless and waste of time
I couldn't access my instance.
I am using AWS for two year and have already spent 20KUSD, but I couldn't find any help regarding this kind of instances.
I tried with java web service shell and with ssh shell.
I tried also to access my instance volume by attaching a copy to an ubuntu instance but the procedure I was usually using wasn't working.
Rgds
Victor
Ugly image
This Amazon Linux is ugly. Extremely old soft (for example boost is of 1.53 version, which is nearly 2 years old, the current one is 1.57). Many of useful libraries cannot be installed using yum (opencv, gflags-devel, glog-devel, lmdb-devel and other requirements for Caffe for example). NVidia driver is rather old (but not so old as boost). I'm disappointed. A lot of time is needed to just install all these libraries manually. Ubuntu offers much better user experience.