Introduction
The NVIDIA® DGX™ systems are shipped with DGX™ OS which incorporates the NVIDIA DGX software stack built upon the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Instead of running the Ubuntu distribution, you can run CentOS on the DGX system and still take advantage of the advanced DGX features.
Prerequisites
The following are required (or recommended where indicated).
Access to Repositories
The repositories can be accessed from the internet.
If you are using a proxy server, then follow the instructions in the section Configuring a System Proxy to make sure the system can access the necessary URIs.
NVIDIA Repositories
After installing CentOS on the DGX system, you must enable the NVIDIA DGX software repository (https://repo.download.nvidia.com). The repository includes the NVIDIA drivers and software for supporting DGX systems.
See the section Enabling the Repositories for instructions on how to enable the repository.
CentOS Repositories
Installation of the DGX Software over CentOS requires access to several additional repositories.
- CentOS Software Collections Repository: centos-release-scl
This repository is required by the NVSM tool for Python 3.
- CentOS Testing Repository: centos-sclo-rh-testing
This repository is required by the NVSM tool for Python 3.
Network File System
On DGX servers, the data drives are meant to be used as a cache. DGX Station users can follow the same usage, or can alternatively opt to use these drives for storage. When using the data drives as cache, a network file system (NFS) is recommended to take advantage of the cache file system provided by the DGX software stack.
BMC Password
The DGX BMC comes with default login credentials as specified in Appendix B: Changing the BMC Login.
NVIDIA recommends disabling the default username and creating a unique BMC username and strong password as soon as possible. Refer to Appendix C: Changing the BMC Login for instructions.