Maintenance

Author: Neil Jianzhang Ni

Date: 21-May-2024

Lights Out System Login

HTTPS to ILO system IP address. If you are outside CUHK network, you need to use VPN to connect to CUHK network first.

NVIDIA GPU

nvidia-smi # check GPU status
nvcc --version # check CUDA version

System Update

System update is a little bit tricky since NVIDIA is closed source, the related modules often raises compatibility issues.

It is not recommended to frequently update the system in order to keep a stable CUDA environment. An update may need manual efforts and detailed compatibility check.

Docker

sudo systemctl daemon-reload  # reload the systemd manager configuration
sudo systemctl restart docker # restart docker
sudo groupadd docker   # add docker group
sudo getent group docker    # check if docker group exists
sudo usermod -aG docker <user>

Conda

sudo adduser conda <user>