How to disable NVBLAS messages?

Accelerated Computing GPU-Accelerated Libraries
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I’m using NVBLAS with R on Fedora 25 and my console is constantly spammed with messages about the NVBLAS config file like this:

> install.packages('tidyverse')
Installing package into ‘/home/username/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.3’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/tidyverse_1.1.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 23452 bytes (22 KB)
==================================================
downloaded 22 KB

[NVBLAS] NVBLAS_CONFIG_FILE environment variable is set to '/etc/nvblas.conf'
[NVBLAS] NVBLAS_CONFIG_FILE environment variable is set to '/etc/nvblas.conf'
[NVBLAS] NVBLAS_CONFIG_FILE environment variable is set to '/etc/nvblas.conf'
[NVBLAS] NVBLAS_CONFIG_FILE environment variable is set to '/etc/nvblas.conf'
[NVBLAS] NVBLAS_CONFIG_FILE environment variable is set to '/etc/nvblas.conf'
[NVBLAS] NVBLAS_CONFIG_FILE environment variable is set to '/etc/nvblas.conf'
[NVBLAS] NVBLAS_CONFIG_FILE environment variable is set to '/etc/nvblas.conf'
[NVBLAS] NVBLAS_CONFIG_FILE environment variable is set to '/etc/nvblas.conf'
* installing *source* package ‘tidyverse’ ...
** package ‘tidyverse’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
[NVBLAS] NVBLAS_CONFIG_FILE environment variable is set to '/etc/nvblas.conf'
[NVBLAS] NVBLAS_CONFIG_FILE environment variable is set to '/etc/nvblas.conf'
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help

Is there any way to disable this message?

2

Did you do this:

[url]NVBLAS :: CUDA Toolkit Documentation

3

Yes, here’s my config file:

NVBLAS_LOGFILE nvblas.log
NVBLAS_CPU_BLAS_LIB /usr/lib64/libopenblas.so
NVBLAS_GPU_LIST ALL

But it still wants to print a message every time telling me that it is about to read the config file!

4

The message seems to be coming directly from the nvblas library before it loads its configuration file, so I can’t stop it with a config option. This annoyance is the only thing stopping me from buying NVIDIA GPUs for all our statistician’s workstations.