Victor Lab Servers

(this document is a work in progress)

Server List

Name	IP	GPU	OS	Applications
hal9000	172.28.235.138	RTX 3090	Ubuntu 20
wall-e	10.0.0.7	RTX 3080	Ubuntu 20, Windows 10
r2d2	172.28.235.240	RTX 3080	Ubuntu 20
ava	10.0.0.x	RTX 3080
chappie	10.0.0.x	RTX 3080
t800	10.0.0.x	RTX 3080

Hardware Assembly

1. Flash motherboard (if using same board) https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X570S-AORUS-ELITE-AX-rev-11/support#support-dl-bios
2. Put parts together

Software Installation

1. Install Ubuntu (20.04.4 LTS)

   • Password should not be password

2. Install SSH server

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install -y net-tools openssh-server
   sudo systemctl enable ssh
   

   Validate by opening a shell from another computer on the subnet.

   ssh username@ipaddress, "yes", enter password

also ips static etc

3. Install GPU drivers

   There doesn't seem to be a definitive online resource for every command required to correctly install the necessary software for enabling the GPU for computation. You should follow the instructions from Nvidia for the most part, however a few additional steps are listed below.

   1. Find the latest version for this machine.

      ubuntu-drivers devices

      The above command should output something similar to ...

      == /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.1/0000:0a:00.0 ==
      modalias : pci:v000010DEd00002216sv00003842sd00004897bc03sc00i00
      vendor   : NVIDIA Corporation
      driver   : nvidia-driver-510-server - distro non-free
      driver   : nvidia-driver-510 - third-party non-free
      driver   : nvidia-driver-470 - third-party non-free
      driver   : nvidia-driver-495 - third-party non-free
      driver   : nvidia-driver-515 - third-party non-free recommended
      driver   : nvidia-driver-515-server - distro non-free
      driver   : nvidia-driver-460 - third-party non-free
      driver   : nvidia-driver-470-server - distro non-free
      driver   : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin

      Since 515 is the highest number, this will be the version we install.

   2. Pre install several packages that seem to not be auto installed later.

      export version=515
      sudo apt update
      sudo apt install -y \
          libnvidia-extra-$version \
          libnvidia-compute-$version \
          nvidia-driver-$version

   3. Read through and follow along with Nvidia's official instructions.

      • https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html

      You can find the name of the dpkg file by navigating the distro website.

      • https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads.

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install cuda
   sudo reboot
   

   Validate by installing and running tensorflow

   sudo apt install python3-pip
   pip install tensorflow-gpu
   echo "alias python=python3" >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc
   python

   import tensorflow as tf
   print(tf.config.list_physical_devices('GPU'))

4. Install ROS

   • ROS1 http://wiki.ros.org/noetic/Installation/Ubuntu
   • ROS2 https://docs.ros.org/en/foxy/Installation.html