Tensorflow: Cuda compute capability 3.0. The minimum required Cuda capability is 3.5

Question

I am installing tensorflow from source (documentation).

Cuda driver version:

nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver Cuda compilation tools, release 7.5, V7.5.17 

When I ran the following command :

bazel-bin/tensorflow/cc/tutorials_example_trainer --use_gpu 

it gave me the following error :

I tensorflow/stream_executor/dso_loader.cc:108] successfully opened CUDA library libcublas.so locally I tensorflow/stream_executor/dso_loader.cc:108] successfully opened CUDA library libcudnn.so locally I tensorflow/stream_executor/dso_loader.cc:108] successfully opened CUDA library libcufft.so locally I tensorflow/stream_executor/dso_loader.cc:108] successfully opened CUDA library libcuda.so.1 locally I tensorflow/stream_executor/dso_loader.cc:108] successfully opened CUDA library libcurand.so locally I tensorflow/stream_executor/cuda/cuda_gpu_executor.cc:925] successful NUMA node read from SysFS had negative value (-1), but there must be at least one NUMA node, so returning NUMA node zero I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_init.cc:118] Found device 0 with properties:  name: GeForce GT 640 major: 3 minor: 0 memoryClockRate (GHz) 0.9015 pciBusID 0000:05:00.0 Total memory: 2.00GiB Free memory: 1.98GiB I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_init.cc:138] DMA: 0  I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_init.cc:148] 0:   Y  I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:843] Ignoring gpu device (device: 0, name: GeForce GT 640, pci bus id: 0000:05:00.0) with Cuda compute capability 3.0. The minimum required Cuda capability is 3.5. I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:843] Ignoring gpu device (device: 0, name: GeForce GT 640, pci bus id: 0000:05:00.0) with Cuda compute capability 3.0. The minimum required Cuda capability is 3.5. I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:843] Ignoring gpu device (device: 0, name: GeForce GT 640, pci bus id: 0000:05:00.0) with Cuda compute capability 3.0. The minimum required Cuda capability is 3.5. I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:843] Ignoring gpu device (device: 0, name: GeForce GT 640, pci bus id: 0000:05:00.0) with Cuda compute capability 3.0. The minimum required Cuda capability is 3.5. I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:843] Ignoring gpu device (device: 0, name: GeForce GT 640, pci bus id: 0000:05:00.0) with Cuda compute capability 3.0. The minimum required Cuda capability is 3.5. I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:843] Ignoring gpu device (device: 0, name: GeForce GT 640, pci bus id: 0000:05:00.0) with Cuda compute capability 3.0. The minimum required Cuda capability is 3.5. I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:843] Ignoring gpu device (device: 0, name: GeForce GT 640, pci bus id: 0000:05:00.0) with Cuda compute capability 3.0. The minimum required Cuda capability is 3.5. I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:843] Ignoring gpu device (device: 0, name: GeForce GT 640, pci bus id: 0000:05:00.0) with Cuda compute capability 3.0. The minimum required Cuda capability is 3.5. I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:843] Ignoring gpu device (device: 0, name: GeForce GT 640, pci bus id: 0000:05:00.0) with Cuda compute capability 3.0. The minimum required Cuda capability is 3.5. I tensorflow/core/common_runtime/gpu/gpu_device.cc:843] Ignoring gpu device (device: 0, name: GeForce GT 640, pci bus id: 0000:05:00.0) with Cuda compute capability 3.0. The minimum required Cuda capability is 3.5. F tensorflow/cc/tutorials/example_trainer.cc:128] Check failed: ::tensorflow::Status::OK() == (session->Run({{"x", x}}, {"y:0", "y_normalized:0"}, {}, &outputs)) (OK vs. Invalid argument: Cannot assign a device to node 'Cast': Could not satisfy explicit device specification '/gpu:0' because no devices matching that specification are registered in this process; available devices: /job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/cpu:0      [[Node: Cast = Cast[DstT=DT_FLOAT, SrcT=DT_INT32, _device="/gpu:0"](Const)]]) F tensorflow/cc/tutorials/example_trainer.cc:128] Check failed: ::tensorflow::Status::OK() == (session->Run({{"x", x}}, {"y:0", "y_normalized:0"}, {}, &outputs)) (OK vs. Invalid argument: Cannot assign a device to node 'Cast': Could not satisfy explicit device specification '/gpu:0' because no devices matching that specification are registered in this process; available devices: /job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/cpu:0      [[Node: Cast = Cast[DstT=DT_FLOAT, SrcT=DT_INT32, _device="/gpu:0"](Const)]]) F tensorflow/cc/tutorials/example_trainer.cc:128] Check failed: ::tensorflow::Status::OK() == (session->Run({{"x", x}}, {"y:0", "y_normalized:0"}, {}, &outputs)) (OK vs. Invalid argument: Cannot assign a device to node 'Cast': Could not satisfy explicit device specification '/gpu:0' because no devices matching that specification are registered in this process; available devices: /job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/cpu:0      [[Node: Cast = Cast[DstT=DT_FLOAT, SrcT=DT_INT32, _device="/gpu:0"](Const)]]) F tensorflow/cc/tutorials/example_trainer.cc:128] Check failed: ::tensorflow::Status::OK() == (session->Run({{"x", x}}, {"y:0", "y_normalized:0"}, {}, &outputs)) (OK vs. Invalid argument: Cannot assign a device to node 'Cast': Could not satisfy explicit device specification '/gpu:0' because no devices matching that specification are registered in this process; available devices: /job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/cpu:0      [[Node: Cast = Cast[DstT=DT_FLOAT, SrcT=DT_INT32, _device="/gpu:0"](Const)]]) Aborted (core dumped) 

Will I need a different gpu to run this?

Answer 1

I have installed Tensorflow revision 1.8. It recommends CUDA 9.0. I am using a GTX 650M card which has CUDA compute capability 3.0 and now works like a charm. OS is ubuntu 18.04. Below are detailed steps:

Installing dependencies

I have included ffmpeg and some related packages for my opencv 3.4 compilation, if not required do not install Run the below commands:

sudo apt-get update  sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y sudo apt-get autoremove -y sudo apt-get upgrade sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-3 -y sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential -y sudo apt-get install ffmpeg -y sudo apt-get install cmake git libgtk2.0-dev pkg-config libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev -y sudo apt-get install python-dev libtbb2 libtbb-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev libtiff-dev libjasper-dev libdc1394-22-dev -y sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libv4l-dev -y sudo apt-get install libxvidcore-dev libx264-dev -y sudo apt-get install unzip qtbase5-dev python-dev python3-dev python-numpy python3-numpy -y sudo apt-get install libopencv-dev libgtk-3-dev libdc1394-22 libdc1394-22-dev libjpeg-dev libpng12-dev libtiff5-dev >libjasper-dev -y sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libxine2-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev -y sudo apt-get install libv4l-dev libtbb-dev libfaac-dev libmp3lame-dev libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev libtheora-dev -y sudo apt-get install libvorbis-dev libxvidcore-dev v4l-utils vtk6 -y sudo apt-get install liblapacke-dev libopenblas-dev libgdal-dev checkinstall -y sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev -y sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev gfortran -y sudo apt-get install qt-sdk -y sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev python3.5-dev python-tk -y sudo apt-get install cython libgflags-dev -y sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr -y sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-eng -y  sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-ell -y sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-python3-plugin-loader -y sudo apt-get install libdc1394-22-dev -y sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk sudo apt-get install pkg-config zip g++-6 gcc-6 zlib1g-dev unzip  git sudo wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py sudo python get-pip.py sudo pip install -U pip sudo pip install -U numpy sudo pip install -U pandas sudo pip install -U wheel sudo pip install -U six 

Installing the nvidia driver

Run the below commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nvidia-390 -y 

Reboot and run the below command and it should give you details as described in the image below:

gcc-6 and g++-6 checks.

gcc-6 and g++-6 is required for CUDA 9.0, run the below commands:

cd /usr/bin  sudo rm -rf gcc gcc-ar gcc-nm gcc-ranlib g++ sudo ln -s gcc-6 gcc sudo ln -s gcc-ar-6 gcc-ar sudo ln -s gcc-nm-6 gcc-nm sudo ln -s gcc-ranlib-6 gcc-ranlib sudo ln -s g++-6 g++ 

Installing CUDA 9.0

Go to https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-90-download-archive. Select options: Linux->x86_64->Ubuntu->17.04->deb(local). Download the main file and the two patches. Run below commands:

sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1704-9-0-local_9.0.176-1_amd64.deb sudo apt-key add /var/cuda-repo-9-0-local/7fa2af80.pub sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install cuda 

Navigate to the first patch on your PC and double click it, it will automatically execute, follow same for second patch.

Add below to lines to your ~/.bashrc file and give it a reboot:

export PATH=/usr/local/cuda-9.0/bin${PATH:+:$PATH}} export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda-9.0/lib64${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}} 

Installing cudnn 7.1.4 for CUDA 9.0

Download the tar file from https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn and extract it to your Downloads folder Download requires a nvidia developed login, free sign-up Run the below commands:

cd ~/Downloads/cudnn-9.0-linux-x64-v7.1/cuda sudo cp include/* /usr/local/cuda/include/ sudo cp lib64/libcudnn.so.7.1.4 lib64/libcudnn_static.a /usr/local/cuda/lib64/ cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu sudo ln -s libcudnn.so.7.1.4 libcudnn.so.7 sudo ln -s libcudnn.so.7 libcudnn.so 

Installing NCCL 2.2.12 for CUDA 9.0

Download the tar file from https://developer.nvidia.com/nccl and extract it to your Downloads folder Download requires a nvidia developed login, free sign-up Run the below commands:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/cuda/nccl/lib /usr/local/cuda/nccl/include cd ~/Downloads/nccl-repo-ubuntu1604-2.2.12-ga-cuda9.0_1-1_amd64/ sudo cp *.txt /usr/local/cuda/nccl sudo cp include/*.h /usr/include/ sudo cp lib/libnccl.so.2.1.15 lib/libnccl_static.a /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ sudo ln -s /usr/include/nccl.h /usr/local/cuda/nccl/include/nccl.h cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu sudo ln -s libnccl.so.2.1.15 libnccl.so.2 sudo ln -s libnccl.so.2 libnccl.so for i in libnccl*; do sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/$i /usr/local/cuda/nccl/lib/$i; done 

Install Bazel (the recomended manual installation of bazel worked, for reference: https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/install-ubuntu.html#install-with-installer-ubuntu)

Download "bazel-0.13.1-installer-darwin-x86_64.sh" from https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases Run the below commands:

chmod +x bazel-0.13.1-installer-darwin-x86_64.sh ./bazel-0.13.1-installer-darwin-x86_64.sh --user export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin" 

Compiling Tensorflow

We will compile with CUDA, with XLA JIT (oh yeah) and jemalloc as malloc support. So we enter yes for these things. Run the below command and answer to the queries as described for running configuration

git clone https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow  git checkout r1.8 ./configure You have bazel 0.13.0 installed. Please specify the location of python. [Default is /usr/bin/python]: Please input the desired Python library path to use.  Default is [/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages] Do you wish to build TensorFlow with jemalloc as malloc support? [Y/n]: y jemalloc as malloc support will be enabled for TensorFlow. Do you wish to build TensorFlow with Google Cloud Platform support? [Y/n]: n No Google Cloud Platform support will be enabled for TensorFlow. Do you wish to build TensorFlow with Hadoop File System support? [Y/n]: n No Hadoop File System support will be enabled for TensorFlow. Do you wish to build TensorFlow with Amazon S3 File System support? [Y/n]: n No Amazon S3 File System support will be enabled for TensorFlow. Do you wish to build TensorFlow with Apache Kafka Platform support? [Y/n]: n No Apache Kafka Platform support will be enabled for TensorFlow. Do you wish to build TensorFlow with XLA JIT support? [y/N]: y XLA JIT support will be enabled for TensorFlow. Do you wish to build TensorFlow with GDR support? [y/N]: n No GDR support will be enabled for TensorFlow. Do you wish to build TensorFlow with VERBS support? [y/N]: n No VERBS support will be enabled for TensorFlow. Do you wish to build TensorFlow with OpenCL SYCL support? [y/N]: n No OpenCL SYCL support will be enabled for TensorFlow. Do you wish to build TensorFlow with CUDA support? [y/N]: y CUDA support will be enabled for TensorFlow. Please specify the CUDA SDK version you want to use, e.g. 7.0. [Leave empty to default to CUDA 9.0]: Please specify the location where CUDA 9.1 toolkit is installed. Refer to README.md for more details. [Default is /usr/local/cuda]: Please specify the cuDNN version you want to use. [Leave empty to default to cuDNN 7.0]: 7.1.4 Please specify the location where cuDNN 7 library is installed. Refer to README.md for more details. [Default is /usr/local/cuda]: Do you wish to build TensorFlow with TensorRT support? [y/N]: n No TensorRT support will be enabled for TensorFlow. Please specify the NCCL version you want to use. [Leave empty to default to NCCL 1.3]: 2.2.12 Please specify the location where NCCL 2 library is installed. Refer to README.md for more details. [Default is /usr/local/cuda]:/usr/local/cuda/nccl Please specify a list of comma-separated Cuda compute capabilities you want to build with. You can find the compute capability of your device at: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus. Please note that each additional compute capability significantly increases your build time and binary size. [Default is: 3.0] Do you want to use clang as CUDA compiler? [y/N]: n nvcc will be used as CUDA compiler. Please specify which gcc should be used by nvcc as the host compiler. [Default is /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-7]: /usr/bin/gcc-6 Do you wish to build TensorFlow with MPI support? [y/N]: n No MPI support will be enabled for TensorFlow. Please specify optimization flags to use during compilation when bazel option "--config=opt" is specified [Default is -march=native]: Would you like to interactively configure ./WORKSPACE for Android builds? [y/N]: n Not configuring the WORKSPACE for Android builds. Preconfigured Bazel build configs. You can use any of the below by adding "--config=<>" to your build command. See tools/bazel.rc for more details.  --config=mkl          # Build with MKL support.   --config=monolithic   # Config for mostly static monolithic build.  Configuration finished 

Now to compile tensorflow, run below command, this is super RAM consuming and will take time. You can remove "--local_resources 2048,.5,1.0" from below line if you have a lot of RAM or this will work on 2 GB of RAM

bazel build --config=opt --config=cuda --local_resources 2048,.5,1.0 //tensorflow/tools/pip_package:build_pip_package 

Once the compilation is completed you will have thing appear as per the image below confirming it was a success

Build the wheel file, run below:

bazel-bin/tensorflow/tools/pip_package/build_pip_package /tmp/tensorflow_pkg 

Install the generated wheel file using pip

sudo pip install /tmp/tensorflow_pkg/tensorflow*.whl 

To explore on the devices now you can run tensorflow, below image is the showcase on ipython terminal