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- Provision a new instance using the OpenStack Horizon UI
- Give the instance an appropriate name
- Select the image that supports GPU, called Ubuntu 24.04 NV_GRID_Open. The size of the root volume will be set by default to 32GB, given by the selected image. However, It is highly recommended to select a larger root volume, as 32GB is not enough for most purposes, e.g. the tensorflow package alone is larger than the remaning disk space.
- Select one the flavors with GPUs. The options for these can be found above in the Introduction
- Once VM is deployed, you can verify GPUs for example using
nvidia-smiprogram from command line (see below for confirming library installations and drivers).
Usage
Essential commands
You can see GPU information using nvidia-smi
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