Activate NVIDIA GRID Virtual Applications on your Amazon EC2 GPU-based instances
To activate the GRID Virtual Applications on GPU-based instances that have NVIDIA GPUs (NVIDIA GRID Virtual Workstation is enabled by default), you must define the product type for the driver, as follows.
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Create the
/etc/nvidia/gridd.conf
file from the provided template file.[ec2-user ~]$
sudo cp /etc/nvidia/gridd.conf.template /etc/nvidia/gridd.conf
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Open the
/etc/nvidia/gridd.conf
file in your favorite text editor. -
Find the
FeatureType
line, and set it equal to0
. Then add a line withIgnoreSP=TRUE
.FeatureType=0 IgnoreSP=TRUE
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Save the file and exit.
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Reboot the instance to pick up the new configuration.
[ec2-user ~]$
sudo reboot
Activate GRID Virtual Applications on Windows instances
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Run regedit.exe to open the registry editor.
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Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\GridLicensing
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Open the context (right-click) menu on the right pane and choose New, DWORD.
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For Name, enter FeatureType and type
Enter
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Open the context (right-click) menu on FeatureType and choose Modify.
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For Value data, enter
0
for NVIDIA GRID Virtual Applications and choose OK. -
Open the context (right-click) menu on the right pane and choose New, DWORD.
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For Name, enter IgnoreSP and type
Enter
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Open the context (right-click) menu on IgnoreSP and choose Modify.
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For Value data, type
1
and choose OK. -
Close the registry editor.