How to install CUDA in Google Colab GPU's

Question

It seems that Google Colab GPU's doesn't come with CUDA Toolkit, how can I install CUDA in Google Colab GPU's. I am getting this error in installing mxnet in Google Colab.

Installing collected packages: mxnet

Successfully installed mxnet-1.2.0

ERROR: Incomplete installation for leveraging GPUs for computations. Please make sure you have CUDA installed and run the following line in your terminal and try again:

pip uninstall -y mxnet && pip install mxnet-cu90==1.1.0

Adjust 'cu90' depending on your CUDA version ('cu75' and 'cu80' are also available). You can also disable GPU usage altogether by invoking turicreate.config.set_num_gpus(0). An exception has occurred, use %tb to see the full traceback.

SystemExit: 1

Answer 1

Google Colab has a large number of pre-installed libraries. Cuda is also pre-installed there.

You can check this by simply opening a new notebook and type !nvcc --version which would return the installed Cuda version.

Check this:

Hope this answer helps you!