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Cuda runtime errors when starting up numba

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[X ] I have tried using the latest released version of Numba (most recent is visible in the change log (https://github.com/numba/numba/blob/master/CHANGE_LOG).

When this is run in a python script:

from numba.cuda.cudadrv.runtime import runtime
cudart_version_major = runtime.get_version()[0]

With the following installed with conda:

And the following from nvidia-smi:

I receive the following error:

Is this a compatibility issue or something else?

It is not easy for me to update the nvidia drivers (on a shared server). If it is a driver issue, why? What dependency does numba have on the nvidia drivers?

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:15 (9 by maintainers)

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roshambo919commented, Feb 9, 2021

Thanks all for the replies. That would be a good debug step and it’d be interesting to see what happens, but we just had the drivers updated on the machine, and now the same environment is working like a charm.

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gmarkallcommented, Feb 9, 2021

Glad to hear it’s now working! If there are no outstanding problems, please do close the issue 😃

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