Pytorch not recognizing GPU -- CUDA initialization: CUDA driver initialization failed, you might not have a CUDA gpu

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1

Hello,

I’m having issues getting pytorch to recognize my GPU as whenever I run “torch.cuda.is_available()”, it says the CUDA driver failed to initialize.

Pytorch is installed using pip and I have tried reinstalling different versions of the NVIDIA driver / CUDA toolkit and pytorch version but I always get the same error.

Any help would be appreciated.

Here is the output from nvidia-smi:
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Here is the output from nvcc -V
nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2022 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Wed_Sep_21_10:33:58_PDT_2022
Cuda compilation tools, release 11.8, V11.8.89
Build cuda_11.8.r11.8/compiler.31833905_0

Here is the output from torch envirionment:
PyTorch version: 2.1.2+cu121
Is debug build: False
CUDA used to build PyTorch: 12.1
ROCM used to build PyTorch: N/A

OS: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (x86_64)
GCC version: (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0
Clang version: Could not collect
CMake version: Could not collect
Libc version: glibc-2.35

Python version: 3.10.12 (main, Nov 20 2023, 15:14:05) [GCC 11.4.0] (64-bit runtime)
Python platform: Linux-5.15.0-91-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.35
Is CUDA available: False
CUDA runtime version: Could not collect
CUDA_MODULE_LOADING set to: N/A
GPU models and configuration:
GPU 0: NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe
GPU 1: NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe
GPU 2: NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe
GPU 3: NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe

Nvidia driver version: 530.30.02
cuDNN version: Could not collect
HIP runtime version: N/A
MIOpen runtime version: N/A
Is XNNPACK available: True

CPU:
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Address sizes: 43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 64
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-63
Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD
Model name: AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX 32-Cores
CPU family: 23
Model: 49
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 32
Socket(s): 1
Stepping: 0
Frequency boost: enabled
CPU max MHz: 4368.1641
CPU min MHz: 2200.0000
BogoMIPS: 6986.40
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc cpuid extd_apicid aperfmperf rapl pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt tce topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_llc mwaitx cpb cat_l3 cdp_l3 hw_pstate ssbd mba ibpb stibp vmmcall fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 cqm rdt_a rdseed adx smap clflushopt clwb sha_ni xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 cqm_llc cqm_occup_llc cqm_mbm_total cqm_mbm_local clzero irperf xsaveerptr rdpru wbnoinvd amd_ppin arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold avic v_vmsave_vmload vgif v_spec_ctrl umip rdpid overflow_recov succor smca sme sev sev_es
Virtualization: AMD-V
L1d cache: 1 MiB (32 instances)
L1i cache: 1 MiB (32 instances)
L2 cache: 16 MiB (32 instances)
L3 cache: 128 MiB (8 instances)
NUMA node(s): 1
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-63
Vulnerability Gather data sampling: Not affected
Vulnerability Itlb multihit: Not affected
Vulnerability L1tf: Not affected
Vulnerability Mds: Not affected
Vulnerability Meltdown: Not affected
Vulnerability Mmio stale data: Not affected
Vulnerability Retbleed: Mitigation; untrained return thunk; SMT enabled with STIBP protection
Vulnerability Spec rstack overflow: Mitigation; safe RET
Vulnerability Spec store bypass: Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Vulnerability Spectre v1: Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Vulnerability Spectre v2: Mitigation; Retpolines, IBPB conditional, STIBP always-on, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS Not affected
Vulnerability Srbds: Not affected
Vulnerability Tsx async abort: Not affected

Versions of relevant libraries:
[pip3] numpy==1.21.5
[pip3] torch==2.1.2
[pip3] torchaudio==2.1.2
[pip3] torchvision==0.16.2
[pip3] triton==2.1.0
[conda] Could not collect

2

Are you able to run any other CUDA application on this system?
Installing the NVIDIA driver and installing the PyTorch binaries should be enough to run PyTorch workloads. A locally installed CUDA toolkit won’t be needed unless you build PyTorch from source or a custom CUDA extension.

3

Yes- I can run other CUDA apps on the system without issues.

I still get this error if I try to validate the CUDA/GPU config with pytorch

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4

I cannot reproduce any issue using the latest wheels on an A100 server:

nvidia-smi
Thu Jan 18 19:02:49 2024       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 525.105.17   Driver Version: 525.105.17   CUDA Version: 12.3     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA A100-SXM...  Off  | 00000000:07:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   30C    P0    60W / 400W |      0MiB / 81920MiB |      0%      Default |
|                               |                      |             Disabled |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|   1  NVIDIA A100-SXM...  Off  | 00000000:0F:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   30C    P0    58W / 400W |      0MiB / 81920MiB |      0%      Default |
|                               |                      |             Disabled |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
...
python -c "import torch; print(torch.__version__); print(torch.cuda.is_available()); print(torch.randn(1).cuda())"
2.1.2+cu121
True
tensor([1.4417], device='cuda:0')
5

This is odd.

What driver packages and pytorch did you install?
I would like to mimic on mine to see if there any changes.

6

NVIDIA driver 525.105.17 with a simple pip install torch installing the latest stable 2.1.2+cu121 binary.

7

No luck.
Are there any other commands or logs I can review to see why it isn’t detecting?

8

You could check your environment as we’ve seen issues in the past reported here where users were unaware of e.g. CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES being set to an invalid value, thus blocking the GPU usage. This would of course not explain why standalone CUDA applications work, but still checking env variables as well as dmesg might give you a clue. Additionally, you could also pull docker containers with PyTorch installed to check if these would work.