Prerequisites for installing IBM Visual Insights

Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system and repository setup

1. Enable common, optional, and extra repo channels.
   IBM POWER8®:

   sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-for-power-le-optional-rpms

   sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-for-power-le-extras-rpms

   sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-for-power-le-rpms

   IBM POWER9™:

   sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-for-power-9-optional-rpms

   sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-for-power-9-extras-rpms

   sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-for-power-9-rpms

   x86:

   sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-optional-rpms

   sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-extras-rpms

   sudo subscription-manager repos --enable=rhel-7-server-rpms

2. Install packages needed for the installation.

   sudo yum -y install wget nano bzip2

3. Enable the Fedora Project Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository:

   wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

   sudo rpm -ihv epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

4. Load the latest kernel or do a full update:
   • Load the latest kernel:
     • For x86:

       sudo yum install kernel-devel
       sudo yum update kernel kernel-devel kernel-tools kernel-tools-libs
       reboot

     • For POWER:

       sudo yum install kernel-devel
       sudo yum update kernel kernel-devel kernel-tools kernel-tools-libs kernel-bootwrapper
       reboot

   • Do a full update:

     sudo yum install kernel-devel
     sudo yum update
     sudo reboot

5. Install Docker and configure it so that IBM Visual Insights containers can use NVIDIA GPUs. For instructions, see Install Docker and nvidia-docker2 (RHEL).
   Note: docker-1.13.1-108.git4ef4b30.el7 has a known issue with the Nvidia GPUs. The docker-1.13.1-104.git4ef4b30.el7 version can explicitly be installed, or newer versions of RHEL Docker work as well. Ensure that docker-1.13.1-108.git4ef4b30.el7 is NOT installed.

Ubuntu operating system and repository setup

1. Install packages needed for the installation

   sudo apt-get install -y wget nano apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common

2. Ensure the kernel headers are installed and match the running kernel. Compare the outputs of:

   dpkg -l | grep linux-headers kernel-package kernel-headers

   and

   uname -r

   Ensure that the linux-headers package version exactly match the version of the running kernel. If they are not identical, bring them in sync as appropriate:
   • Install missing packages.
   • Update down level packages.
   • Reboot the system if the packages are newer than the active kernel.
3. Alternatively, do a full update:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
   sudo reboot

NVIDIA Components: IBM POWER9 specific udev rules (Red Hat only)

1. Copy the /lib/udev/rules.d/40-redhat.rules file to the directory for user overridden rules:

   sudo cp /lib/udev/rules.d/40-redhat.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/

2. Edit the /etc/udev/rules.d/40-redhat.rules file:

   sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/40-redhat.rules

3. Comment out the entire "Memory hotadd request" section and save the change:

   # Memory hotadd request
   #SUBSYSTEM!="memory", ACTION!="add", GOTO="memory_hotplug_end"
   #PROGRAM="/bin/uname -p", RESULT=="s390*", GOTO="memory_hotplug_end"
   
   #ENV{.state}="online"
   #PROGRAM="/bin/systemd-detect-virt", RESULT=="none", ENV{.state}="online_movable"
   #ATTR{state}=="offline", ATTR{state}="$env{.state}"
   
   #LABEL="memory_hotplug_end"

4. Optionally, delete the first line of the file, since the file was copied to a directory where it cannot be overwritten:

   # do not edit this file, it will be overwritten on update

5. Restart the system for the changes to take effect:

   sudo reboot

Remove previously installed CUDA and NVIDIA drivers

Before installing the updated GPU driver, uninstall any previously-installed CUDA and NVIDIA drivers. Follow these steps:

1. Remove all CUDA Toolkit and GPU driver packages.

   You can display installed CUDA and driver packages by running these commands:

   rpm -qa | egrep 'cuda.*(9-2|10-0|10-1)'

   rpm -qa | egrep '(cuda|nvidia).*(396|410|418)\.'

   Verify the list and remove with yum remove.

2. Remove any CUDA Toolkit and GPU driver repository packages.

   These should have been included in step 1, but you can confirm with this command:

   rpm -qa | egrep '(cuda|nvidia).*repo'

   Use yum remove to remove any that remain.

3. Clean the yum repository:

   sudo yum clean all

4. Remove cuDNN and NCCL:

   sudo rm -rf /usr/local/cuda /usr/local/cuda-9.2 /usr/local/cuda-10.0 /usr/local/cuda-10.1

5. Reboot the system to unload the GPU driver:

   sudo shutdown -r now

Install the GPU driver (RHEL)

1. Download the NVIDIA GPU driver:
   • Go to NVIDIA Driver Download.
   • Select Product Type: Tesla.
   • Select Product Series: P-Series (for Tesla P100) or V-Series (for Tesla V100).
   • Select Product: Tesla P100 or Tesla V100.
   • Select Operating System, click Show all Operating Systems, then choose the appropriate value:
     • Linux POWER LE RHEL 7 for Power®
     • Linux 64-bit RHEL7 for x86
   • Select CUDA Toolkit: 10.2.
   • Click SEARCH to go to the download link.
   • Click Download to download the driver.
     Important: An rpm file should be downloaded. If a different type of file is downloaded, verify that you chose the correct options and try again.
2. Install CUDA and the GPU driver.
   Note: For AC922 systems: OS and system firmware updates are required before you install the latest GPU driver.

   sudo rpm -ivh nvidia-driver-local-repo-rhel7-440.*.rpm

   sudo yum install nvidia-driver-latest-dkms

3. Set nvidia-persistenced to start at boot (required for ppc64le, recommended for x86):

   sudo systemctl enable nvidia-persistenced

4. Restart to activate the driver.
5. Verify the setup:

   IBM Power

   
   docker run --rm nvidia/cuda-ppc64le nvidia-smi
   

   x86_64

   docker run --rm nvidia/cuda nvidia-smi

Install the GPU driver (Ubuntu)

Many of the deep learning packages require the GPU driver packages from NVIDIA.

Install the GPU driver by following these steps:

1. Download the NVIDIA GPU driver.
   • Go to NVIDIA Driver Download.
   • Select Product Type: Tesla
   • Select Product Series: P-Series (for Tesla P100) or V-Series (for Tesla V100).
   • Select Product: Tesla P100 or Tesla V100.
   • Select Operating System, click Show all Operating Systems, then choose the correct value:
     • Linux POWER LE Ubuntu 18.04 for POWER
     • Linux 64-bit Ubuntu 18.04 for x86
   • Select CUDA Toolkit: 10.2
   • Click SEARCH to go to the download link.
   • Click Download to download the driver.
     Important: A deb file should be downloaded. If a different type of file is downloaded, verify that you chose the correct options and try again.
2. The driver file name is NVIDIA-Linux-ppc64le-440.87.01.run. Give this file execute permission and execute it on the Linux image where the GPU driver is to be installed.

   When the file is executed, you are asked two questions. It is recommended that you answer Yes to both questions. If the driver fails to install, check the /var/log/nvidia-installer.log file for relevant error messages.

3. Install the GPU driver repository and cuda-drivers:

   sudo dpkg -i nvidia-driver-local-repo-ubuntu1804-440.*.deb

   sudo apt-key add /var/nvidia-driver-local-repo-440.*/*.pub

   sudo apt-get update

   sudo apt-get install cuda-drivers

4. Set nvidia-persistenced to start at boot

   sudo systemctl enable nvidia-persistenced

5. Reboot the system

Verify the GPU driver

Verify that the CUDA drivers are installed by running the /usr/bin/nvidia-smi application.

# nvidia-smi
Fri Mar 15 12:23:50 2019       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 418.29       Driver Version: 418.29       CUDA Version: 10.1     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  Tesla P100-SXM2...  On   | 00000002:01:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   50C    P0   109W / 300W |   2618MiB / 16280MiB |     43%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   1  Tesla P100-SXM2...  On   | 00000003:01:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   34C    P0    34W / 300W |      0MiB / 16280MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   2  Tesla P100-SXM2...  On   | 0000000A:01:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   48C    P0    44W / 300W |   5007MiB / 16280MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   3  Tesla P100-SXM2...  On   | 0000000B:01:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   36C    P0    33W / 300W |      0MiB / 16280MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0    114476      C   /opt/miniconda2/bin/python                  2608MiB |
|    2    114497      C   /opt/miniconda2/bin/python                   958MiB |
|    2    114519      C   /opt/miniconda2/bin/python                   958MiB |
|    2    116655      C   /opt/miniconda2/bin/python                  2121MiB |
|    2    116656      C   /opt/miniconda2/bin/python                   958MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Install Docker and nvidia-docker2 (RHEL)

Follow these steps to install Docker on RHEL. For full details, refer to https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker#rhel-docker.

1. Install Docker:

   sudo yum install docker

   Note: docker-1.13.1-108.git4ef4b30.el7 has a known issue with the Nvidia GPUs. The docker-1.13.1-104.git4ef4b30.el7 version can explicitly be installed, or newer versions of RHEL Docker work as well. Ensure that docker-1.13.1-108.git4ef4b30.el7 is NOT installed.
2. Reboot the system.
3. Add the package repositories:

   On x86:

   
   distribution=$(. /etc/os-release;echo $ID$VERSION_ID)
   curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/$distribution/nvidia-docker.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/nvidia-docker.repo
   sudo yum install -y nvidia-container-toolkit
   sudo systemctl restart docker

   On IBM Power:

   
   distribution=$(. /etc/os-release;echo $ID$VERSION_ID)
   curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/docker/$distribution/docker.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/docker.repo
   sudo yum install -y nvidia-container-runtime-hook
   sudo systemctl restart docker

Install Docker and nvidia-docker2 (Ubuntu)

Use these steps to install Docker and nvidia-docker 2.

1. For Ubuntu platforms, a Docker runtime must be installed. If there is no Docker runtime installed yet, install Docker-CE on Ubuntu.

   IBM Power

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common
   curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
   sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=ppc64el] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu bionic stable"
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install docker-ce=18.06.1~ce~3-0~ubuntu

   x86_64

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common
   curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
   sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu bionic stable"
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install docker-ce

2. Install nvidia-docker 2.

   curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/gpgkey | sudo apt-key add -
   distribution=$(. /etc/os-release;echo $ID$VERSION_ID)
   curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/$distribution/nvidia-docker.list | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-docker.list
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install nvidia-docker2
   sudo systemctl restart docker.service

3. For each userid that will run docker, add the userid to the docker group:

   sudo usermod -a -G docker <userid>

   Users must log out and log back in to pick up this group change.

4. Verify the setup.

   IBM Power

   nvidia-docker run --rm nvidia/cuda-ppc64le nvidia-smi

   x86_64

   nvidia-docker run --rm nvidia/cuda nvidia-smi