Note: If you need to use the previous version of this image at CHI@UC, please contact us via Help Desk.

The CentOS Stream 8 CUDA 11.5 appliance is built from the CentOS Stream 8 appliance and customized with CUDA 11.5. CUDA is a parallel computing platform and programming model developed by NVIDIA. It enables to use "CUDA-enabled" GPUs for general purpose processing (GPGPU).

This appliance is based on the default CentOS Stream 8 which has been customized to provide the NVIDIA drivers and the CUDA toolkit. CUDA version 8+ is required for the NVIDIA P100 GPUs.

CUDA samples are installed in: /usr/local/cuda/samples

• Image name: CC-CentOS8-stream-CUDA11
• Default user account: cc
• Remote access: Key-Based SSH
• Root access: passwordless sudo from the cc account
• Chameleon admin access: enabled on the ccadmin account
• Cloud-init enabled on boot: yes
• Installed packages:
  • CUDA 11.5.1_495
  • Standard development tools such as make, gcc, etc.
  • Config management tools: Ansible
  • OpenStack command-line clients
  • OpenStack Heat configuration agents
  • Chameleon packages: rubygem-g5k-checks (providing cc-checks), cc-snapshot, cc-cloudfuse
• UEFI and BIOS compatible