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Automation Suite on Linux Installation Guide
Last updated 2024年3月25日

Adding a dedicated agent node with GPU support

Note:

Automation Suite currently supports only Nvidia GPU drivers. See the list of GPU-supported operating systems.

For more on the cloud-specific instance types, see the following:

Before adding a dedicated agent node with GPU support, make sure to check Hardware requirements.

Installing a GPU driver on the machine

Note: GPU driver is stored under /opt/nvidia and /usr folder. It is highly recommended that these folders should be at-least 5 GiB and 15 GiB respectively on GPU agent machine.
  1. To install the GPU driver on the agent node, run the following command:
    sudo yum install kernel kernel-tools kernel-headers kernel-devel 
    sudo reboot
    sudo yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
    sudo sed 's/$releasever/8/g' -i /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
    sudo sed 's/$releasever/8/g' -i /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-modular.repo
    sudo yum config-manager --add-repo http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/rhel8/x86_64/cuda-rhel8.repo
    sudo yum install cudasudo yum install kernel kernel-tools kernel-headers kernel-devel 
    sudo reboot
    sudo yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
    sudo sed 's/$releasever/8/g' -i /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
    sudo sed 's/$releasever/8/g' -i /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-modular.repo
    sudo yum config-manager --add-repo http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/rhel8/x86_64/cuda-rhel8.repo
    sudo yum install cuda
  2. To install the container toolkits, run the following command:
    distribution=$(. /etc/os-release;echo $ID$VERSION_ID) \
              && curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/$distribution/nvidia-docker.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/nvidia-docker.repo
    sudo dnf clean expire-cache
    sudo yum install -y nvidia-container-toolkitdistribution=$(. /etc/os-release;echo $ID$VERSION_ID) \
              && curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/nvidia-docker/$distribution/nvidia-docker.repo | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/nvidia-docker.repo
    sudo dnf clean expire-cache
    sudo yum install -y nvidia-container-toolkit

Verify if the drivers are installed properly

Run sudo nvidia-smi command on the node to verify if the drivers were installed properly.


Note: Once the cluster has been provisioned, additional steps are required to configure the provisioned GPUs.

At this point, the GPU drivers have been installed and that the GPU nodes have been added to the cluster.

Adding a GPU node to the cluster

Step 1: Configuring the machine

To ensure the disk is partitioned correctly and all networking requirements are met, see Step 6: Configuring the disks.

Step 2: Copying the interactive installer to the target machine

  1. SSH to any of the server machine.
  2. Run the following command to copy the contents of the UiPathAutomationSuite folder to the GPU node (username and DNS are specific to the GPU node):
    sudo su -
    scp -r /opt/UiPathAutomationSuite <username>@<node dns>:/opt/
    scp -r ~/* <username>@<node dns>:/opt/UiPathAutomationSuite/sudo su -
    scp -r /opt/UiPathAutomationSuite <username>@<node dns>:/opt/
    scp -r ~/* <username>@<node dns>:/opt/UiPathAutomationSuite/

Step 3: Running the interactive installer to configure the dedicated node

  1. SSH to the GPU Node.
  2. Run the following commands:
    sudo su -
    cd /opt/UiPathAutomationSuite
    chmod -R 755 /opt/UiPathAutomationSuite
    yum install unzip jq -y
    CONFIG_PATH=/opt/UiPathAutomationSuite/cluster_config.json 
    
    install-uipath.sh -i /opt/UiPathAutomationSuite/cluster_config.json -o output.json -k -j gpu --accept-license-agreementsudo su -
    cd /opt/UiPathAutomationSuite
    chmod -R 755 /opt/UiPathAutomationSuite
    yum install unzip jq -y
    CONFIG_PATH=/opt/UiPathAutomationSuite/cluster_config.json 
    
    install-uipath.sh -i /opt/UiPathAutomationSuite/cluster_config.json -o output.json -k -j gpu --accept-license-agreement

Enabling the GPU on the cluster

  1. Log in to any server node.
  2. Navigate to the installer folder (UiPathAutomationSuite).
    cd /opt/UiPathAutomationSuitecd /opt/UiPathAutomationSuite
  3. Enable the GPU on the cluster by running the following command on any server node:
    sudo ./configureUiPathAS.sh gpu enablesudo ./configureUiPathAS.sh gpu enable

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