I’m seeing conflicting information on whether the 470.xx legacy drivers support K20/K40 accelerators; can anyone give a definitive answer? (This is for a CentOS-based cluster, which is currently running EOL 460.xx drivers).
Places I’ve looked, with varying results:
- The Release notes for 470.161.03 on the Tesla documentation site:
- in “Section 2. Virtualization > Supported Graphics Cards”, the K20/K40 cards are included in the table showing passthrough support.
- In “Section 3. Hardware and Software Support > Supported NVIDIA Data Center GPUs”, only K80/K520 are listed.
- The README accompanying the 470.161.03 driver downloads at https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/470.161.03/
- in “Appendix A. Supported NVIDIA GPU Products”, the K20 and K40 cards are listed
- Note that the driver on this site is bitwise-identical to the one linked from the Tesla site’s releases.json; different download URLs, same file.
- The What’s a legacy driver? page
- the K20/K40 cards are listed as being supported by the 470.xx drivers
- The Linux X64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver page for 470.161.03
- in the “Supported Products” tab, none of the Tesla accelerators are listed.
- The Data Center Driver For Linux X64 page for 470.161.03
- in the “Supported Products” tab, only K80/K520 are listed
- Again, I believe this is the same file (note the filesize and name), just listed on a different page.
- The main NVIDIA Driver Downloads search tool
- Searching for any K-series card (including K80/K520) points you to the EOL 460.106.00 driver
Am I missing something obvious here, or are some of these sources just incomplete or incorrect…?
Thanks,
Martin