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GPU drivers

GPU drivers - NVIDIA Tutorial

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GPU drivers

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You probably know about device drivers, like you have installed a USB device, it may require a driver. You have installed a new printer, that printer may require drivers to function and same applies for GPU also. Let's focus on NVIDIA drivers. So we are focusing here on GPU drivers. These are the software that connects NVIDIA GPU with the operating system and application. So these GPU drivers has to be installed. There are chances that if you are getting a pre-configured system, these drivers may already be installed. Or let's say you are using an Amazon EC2 machine with a specific EMI, like you are using a deep learning AMI for this EC2 machine, this driver would already be installed on it. If it is not installed, then you can still go ahead and configure it. There are clear-cut process defined in NVIDIA documentation, so you can explore this documentation, which talks about how to install this driver on various operating systems through various methods of downloading locally or…

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