Quickly Install CUDA and cuDNN on Google Cloud Compute

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This short article documents the process it took for me to install NVIDIA CUDA and cuDNN onto a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) instance with a Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU enabled.

The total time taken to install this shouldn’t take more than 15mins, depending on your network speed.

If you haven’t set up the GCP instance with GPU, you can also visit this article on how I setup Google Cloud Compute Instance with GPU.

Prerequisite

Before you begin, we will assume you have the following,

• An instance on Google Cloud Platform
• GCP instance is running an Ubuntu 16.04
• GCP instance should have Nvidia either K80 or P100 enabled
• Installed locally the gcloud cli tools

NVIDIA Registration

To get the files you need later for the installation process, please proceed to https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn to register an account.

Once your account has been created and verified, proceed to download the cuDNN library.