HOWTO : nVidia CUDA 4.0 RC on Ubuntu 11.04 Server

If you have nVidia display card that have several CUDAs on it, you will interested in this tutorial. This time, I would like to show you how to install CUDA 4.0 RC on Ubuntu 11.04 Server.



You will experience a faster server after the installation of CUDA 4.0.



This HOWTO does not require to install X.



Step 1 :



Add the CUDA 4.0 PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aaron-haviland/cuda-4.0



Step 2 :



sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade



64-bit :

sudo apt-get install nvidia-cuda-gdb nvidia-cuda-toolkit nvidia-compute-profiler libnpp4 nvidia-cuda-doc libcudart4 libcublas4 libcufft4 libcusparse4 libcurand4 nvidia-current nvidia-opencl-dev nvidia-current-dev nvidia-cuda-dev opencl-headers



32-bit :

sudo apt-get install nvidia-cuda-gdb nvidia-cuda-toolkit nvidia-compute-profiler lib32npp4 nvidia-cuda-doc lib32cudart4 lib32cublas4 lib32cufft4 lib32cusparse4 lib32curand4 nvidia-current nvidia-opencl-dev nvidia-current-dev nvidia-cuda-dev opencl-headers



Step 3 :



sudo nano /etc/init.d/nvidia_cuda



Append the following lines.



============= Copy from here ================

#!/bin/bash



PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH



/sbin/modprobe nvidia



if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then



   # Count the number of NVIDIA controllers found.

   N3D=`/usr/bin/lspci | grep -i NVIDIA | grep "3D controller" | wc -l`

   NVGA=`/usr/bin/lspci | grep -i NVIDIA | grep "VGA compatible controller" | wc -l`



   N=`expr $N3D + $NVGA - 1`

   for i in `seq 0 $N`; do

      /bin/mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidia$i c 195 $i;

   done



   /bin/mknod -m 666 /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255



else

   exit 1

fi



=========== Copy to here =================



Step 4 :



sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/nvidia_cuda

sudo update-rc.d nvidia_cuda defaults



Step 5 :



Reboot your system.



Remarks



I do not have nVidia display cards server in hand at the moment, I am not sure the captioned startup script working properly or not.



That's all! See you.