By Hugo Affaticati, Program Manager
Useful resources
Information on the Microsoft NCsv3-series
Information on the Microsoft NCas_T4_v3-series
Pre-requisites
Deploy a virtual machine on Microsoft Azure Portal.
Key values:
- Size: NC6s v3 (also available NC12s v3 and NC24s v3) or NC16as_T4_v3 (also available NC4as_T4_v3, NC8as_T4_v3, and NC64as_T4_v3)
- Image: Ubuntu HPC 18.04 (recommended, also available Ubuntu HPC 20.04)
- Availability: no redundancy required for benchmarking
- Disk: 2048 GB data disk
Step 1: NVIDIA driver and CUDA
Verify the NVIDIA driver version
cd /mnt
nvidia-smi
If the driver version is less than 510, update both the driver and the CUDA versions
sudo wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64/cuda-ubuntu1804.pin
sudo mv cuda-ubuntu1804.pin /etc/apt/preferences.d/cuda-repository-pin-600
sudo wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/11.6.1/local_installers/cuda-repo-ubuntu1804-11-6...
sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1804-11-6-local_11.6.1-510.47.03-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-key add /var/cuda-repo-ubuntu1804-11-6-local/7fa2af80.pub
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install cuda
Restart the machine
sudo reboot
Step 2: Docker
The next step is to update Docker to the latest version.
cd /mnt
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce
Update the Docker root directory in the docker daemon configuration file
sudo vi /etc/docker/daemon.json
Add the line after the first curly bracket
"data-root": "/mnt/data",
Verify the previous steps and enable docker
docker --version
sudo systemctl restart docker
sudo systemctl enable docker
Register your user for Docker
sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
newgrp docker
You should not have any permission issues when running
docker info
Step 3: Mount the data disk
Find the managed disk you deployed with the deployment of the virtual machine
lsblk -o NAME,HCTL,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT | grep -i "sd"
Get the name (sda, sdb, or sdc…) corresponding to the 2TB disk from the previous line.
Replace “sdc” in the following lines 2 and 3 by the accurate name.
sudo mkdir /mnt/resource_mdisk
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc && sudo fsck /dev/sdc
sudo mount /dev/sdc /mnt/resource_mdisk
sudo chown -R azureuser:users resource_mdisk/
