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While making this guide the main cause of this was not choosing the OS with drivers or not restarting the VM after installing drivers and updating the system. If there is no GPU this means installing the GPU drivers has likely failed as BOINC can't recognise there is a GPU available. Within your project account users you should see also see your Google Cloud VM pop up as well.

Below you can see an example of the output from 'boinccmd -get_tasks' You can see tasks that have been downloaded and complete/submitted using Is useful to check that your GPU and networking is not suspended.Ĭan be used to check your project has been added.Īfter 5 mins your VM should start getting tasks and working on them.

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You can see more commands on how to use boinccmd here. Some of these are likely redundant but I still run them regardless to make sure there is nothing unexpected. Replace the USER_NAME, PASSWORD, ACCOUNT_KEY with your own boinccmd -lookup_account USER_NAME PASSWORD.boinccmd -join_acct_mgr USER_NAME PASSWORD.Worth stopping and starting your VM again then enter these into the terminal: Run the following commands within the terminal:

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After you've let the drivers fully install close your SSH connection to your VM and within 'VM instances' stop and start your VM then reconnect via SSH. Let the drivers install this may take 5 mins.Ĭongrats you now have a running P100 on Google Cloud with drivers installed. Once its started up you should see terminal below.

Wait a minute for your VM to start up then click SSH within 'VM instances'.

You should have a suggestion to change the boot disk so go within in it and pick: 'Debian 10 based Deep Learning VM with M108' scroll to the bottom and press 'create'.

I haven't had much luck with using other GPUs but let me know if anyone gets them working with good results.

Under VM instances press CREATE INSTANCE and pick GPUs as your machine config and P100 and the default Machine type seems to be doing well for me.

Under quotas select Compute Engine API - GPUs (all regions) and click edit quotas setting a limit of 1 and fill in your details and hit submit request (I personally could not get more then one on my fresh account and this limits the cost risk but feel free to try more).

Make your Google Cloud account and activate it by adding payment details (this unlocks the ability to run GPU instances).

Google Cloud only seems to give access to 1 GPU for beginners so costs should be limited but you should be diligent in checking the billing.īecause of this risk I highly recommend reading the guide fully before attempting. This guide will be using the command line quite a bit and because of the nature of it being a cloud service provider there will be charges if you leave this running past the trial money. Make sure you've joined the LinusTechTips_Team for the project. This guide assumes you already have accounts with : and any projects you want to use Google Cloud on e.g. In this guide I will using Google Clouds $300 to run on a GPU but with tweaking this should guide should be useable for any of the projects with or without a GPU.