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CUDA issue on the Compute Instance

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python, pytorch

Research direction

Start by reproducing python -c "import torch; print(torch.cuda.is_available())" on the Compute Instance and comparing it with the working Computer Cluster VMs. Check the reported nvidia-smi, nvcc --version, and CUDA initialization error, then verify that PyTorch detects the A100 GPUs and that the NCCL test compiles and runs.

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Description

PyTorch cannot detect GPUs on the Compute Instance with NVIDIA A100 GPUs. nvidia-smi and nvcc --version can return the installed CUDA version and CUDA toolkit versions. But PyTorch returns the following:

# python -c "import torch; print(torch.cuda.is_available())"
/opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/torch/cuda/__init__.py:80: UserWarning: CUDA initialization: Unexpected error from cudaGetDeviceCount(). Did you run some cuda functions before calling NumCudaDevices() that might have already set an error? Error 802: system not yet initialized (Triggered internally at  /opt/pytorch/pytorch/c10/cuda/CUDAFunctions.cpp:112.)
  return torch._C._cuda_getDeviceCount() > 0
False

I tried to pull PyTorch container from Nvidia NGC, AML base images, or compile PyTorch using pip/conda with GPU support. All have the same CUDA issue. I also cannot compile NCCL test on the Compute Instance with GPUs.

However, everything works fine on the Computer Cluster VMs. NCCL compiles/runs file and PyTorch has no issue with CUDA. I suspect CUDA is installed but not configured correctly on the Compute Instance VMs.

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