Installing CUDA driver on machine with no GPU

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Setup and Installation
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Hello all,
I am in a situation where I need to build a Docker image that includes the following:

  • CUDA driver
  • CUDNN
  • NCCL

This base image will be used in developing other Docker containers on which we will be installing CUDA and non-CUDA enabled versions of Tensorflow. Our environment is heterogeneous and there is no guarantee that our pods/nodes will have CUDA capabilities. So, we want our ML Compute nodes to transparently take advantage of CUDA capabilities if the pod is running on CUDA-enabled hardware.

I am able to build this base Docker image correctly on my Linux machine that has a GPU. It was wondering if I should be able to build the Docker image on a machine that doesn’t have a GPU.

Thanks in advance,
Prashanth

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Never mind, I figured it out. I realised that you do not install the driver in the container, but rather rely on the fact that the host has the driver installed!