Overview of Drive Type Selection
eSurfing Cloud GPU Cloud Server supports the installation of the following two NVIDIA drivers:
· GPU driver: used to drive physical GPU, also called Tesla driver.
· GRID driver: used to obtain graphics acceleration capabilities.
Instance Type | Scenario | Driver Type | Driver Installation Mode |
GPU Computing Accelerated | General Computing | Tesla Driver | · GPU driver is automatically installed when creating a GPU instance (only supports Linux OS) · Download and install the GPU driver from NVIDIA official website |
Graphics Rendering | GRID Driver | · Select a billing image with the GRID driver pre-installed at the time of purchase · Purchase the corresponding license from NVIDIA or its agent and install the GRID driver yourself | |
GPU Graphics Acceleration Basic Type | General Computing | GRID Driver | GRID driver is pre-installed in the public image, no separate payment is required |
Graphics Rendering | GRID Driver | GRID driver is pre-installed in the public image, no separate payment is required |
Note:
At present, only the GPU cloud server in some resource pools support automatic installation of GPU drivers / provide billing images with pre-installed GRID drivers. For other resource pools, please install the drivers manually. If you need to install the GPU driver manually, see Install Tesla Driver and Install GRID Driver.
Each instance specification supports auto-installed/pre-installed driver versions.
Instance Type | Supported Driver Types | Driver Versions Supported by Auto Install | Image of Pre-installed Drivers | Driver Versions Supported by Manual Install |
GPU Computing Accelerated P8A/PI7/P2V/P2VS/PI2 | Tesla Driver | Driver 470.82.01CUDA 11.4.3 CUDNN 8.8.1.3 | - | No special requirements, NVIDIA officially supports the version. |
GRID Driver | - | · Windows Server 2019 Datacenter 64bit Note: Pre-installed driver version GRID13.2; some resource pools have not loaded the image yet, please submit a ticket if necessary. | No special requirements, NVIDIA officially supports the version. NVIDIA Virtual GPU (vGPU) Software Documentation | |
GPU Graphics Acceleration Basic Type G5/G6 | GRID Driver | - | · Windows Server 2016 Standard 64bit · Windows Server 2012 Standard 64bit · CentOS 7.5 64bit · CentOS 7.6 64bit · Ubuntu Server 16.04 64bit Note: Pre-installed driver version GRID9.1 | Not supported yet
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GPU Graphics Acceleration Basic Type G7/G5S | GRID Driver | - | Non multi-AZ resource pool · Windows Server 2019 DataCenter 64bit · Windows Server 2016 DataCenter 64bit · Windows Server 2012 DataCenter 64bit Multi-AZ resource pool · Windows Server 2019 DataCenter 64bit · Windows Server 2016 DataCenter 64bit · Windows Server 2012 DataCenter 64bit · CentOS 8.1 64bit · CentOS 8.2 64bit · Ubuntu Server 20.04 64bit Note: Pre-installed driver version GRID13.2 | Not supported yet |