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I recently installed the Nvidia graphics driver and CUDA on my Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 16.04 machines (with GTX 970 and GTX 970M respectively), both of which have x86_64 architecture. Much of the installation was done simply with apt-get, and the entire process went rather smoothly.

I'm now trying to install the same thing on a POWER8 ppc64el architecture server with Ubuntu 14.04 server edition installed. The server is equipped with Nvidia Tesla M2090 GPU.

However, the "standard" Ubuntu repositories (main, restricted, universe, multiverse) seem to not have Nvidia drivers nor CUDA, I couldn't install with apt-get as I did before. I tried downloading the Debian files from Nvidia website for ppc64el-based Ubuntu 14.04 (both graphics driver and CUDA), but the installation didn't quite go through.

Does anyone have experiences installing CUDA on a ppc64el-based Ubuntu server?

Thanks a lot.

Hizqeel
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Chia-Li Kuo
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Yes, I've successfully installed Nvidia drivers and CUDA on a ppc64le system with a Tesla K8, and managed to run some scientific computing applications with CUDA. I needed the drivers from the Nvidia website.

A quick search of the Nvidia drivers from their website give me this: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/95927/en-us which I think will be what you're looking for.

dja
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I have filed a bug for this. If you have encountered this issue, please visit the bug report and add your comments, and select the "this bug affects me" option. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1583746

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