Use GPUs to accelerate your Spark applications. When using a GPU enabled Azure VM, your docker image will contain CUDA-8.0 and cuDnn-6.0 by default. See Docker Image for more information about the AZTK Docker images.
[NOTE: Azure does not have GPU enabled VMs in all regions. Please use this link to make sure that your Batch account is in a region that has GPU enabled VMs]
AZTK uses Nvidia-Docker to expose the VM's GPU(s) inside the container. Nvidia drivers (ver. 384) are installed at runtime.
Create a cluster specifying a GPU enabled VM
aztk spark cluster create --id gpu-cluster --vm-size standard_nc6 --size 1
Submit your an application to the cluster that will take advantage of the GPU
aztk spark cluster submit --id gpu-cluster --name gpu-app ./examples/src/main/python/gpu/nubma_example.py
By default, CUDA is installed at /usr/local/cuda-8.0
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