Nvidia K80 Azure

Removing the nouveau driver is not necessary installation of cuda drivers do that automatically.

Nvidia k80 azure. Have a n series windows 10 vm on azure with tesla k80 display adaptor. The vm doesn t seems to use the gpu properly. So i ve been fortunate enough to been able to test drive the n series virtual machine instances in microsoft azure. Lspci grep i nvidia a450 00 00 0 3d controller 0302.

With nvidia quadro virtual workstations creative and technical professionals can maximize their productivity from anywhere by accessing the most demanding professional design and engineering applications from the cloud. The tesla k80 was a professional graphics card by nvidia launched in november 2014. Which can either be setup with a m60 which is the nv series or a k80 which is the nc series. For vms backed by nvidia gpus the nvidia gpu driver extension installs appropriate nvidia cuda or grid drivers.

The tesla k80 gpu accelerator is designed for servers and offers a total of 24 gb of gddr5 on board memory 12 gb per gpu and supports pci express gen3. The following example shows successful configuration of the tesla k80 card on an azure nc vm. Following are the issues with the azure vm. Install or manage the extension using the azure portal or tools such as azure powershell or azure resource manager templates.

For those who are not aware the n series is a gpu enabled series of virtual machines. Tested on azure nc6 with 1x tesla k80. Azure will also offer customers supercomputing class performance with the addition of the nvidia tesla accelerated computing platform s flagship tesla k80 gpu accelerators for the most computationally. The gk210 graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 561 mm and 7 100 million transistors.

Built on the 28 nm process and based on the gk210 graphics processor in its gk210 885 a1 variant the card supports directx 12. Virtual workstations powered by nvidia gpus are available directly from microsoft azure and from the azure marketplace for large scale cloud deployments and support for. The vm doesn t uses the nvidia display adaptor for the default generic pnp monitor. K80 graphics processing unit gpu is a pci express dual slot computing module in the tesla 267 mm length form factor comprising of two tesla k80 gpus.

Open a command prompt and change to the c program files nvidia corporation nvsmi directory. Playing gta is very laggy and you play frame by frame. Additionally unlike any other cloud provider the nc series offers rdma and infiniband connectivity for extremely low latency high throughput and scale out workloads. With the azure nc series you can run cuda workloads on up to four tesla k80 gpus in a single virtual machine.

Any help would be highly appreciated. The cloud through azure or via a hybrid of the two using both windows and linux virtual machines.