The CentOS 7 CUDA 9.2 appliance is built from the CentOS 7 appliance and customized with CUDA 9.2. 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 7 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-CentOS7-CUDA9
• 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
• Repositories (Yum): EPEL, RDO (OpenStack Liberty)
• Installed packages:
  • CUDA 9.2.148
  • Standard development tools such as make, gcc, gfortran, etc.
  • Config management tools: Puppet, Ansible
  • OpenStack command-line clients
  • OpenStack Heat configuration agents
  • Chameleon packages: rubygem-g5k-checks (providing cc-checks), cc-snapshot
  • Cloudfuse

This appliance is built from the gpu branch of our CC-CentOS7 disk image builder.