Spatial analysis image not running on my azure iotedge device

Question

Spatial Analysis image is not running on my azure IoT edge device after running the deployment manifest file.

I am using a general purpose vm, I couldn't get a vm with GPU under the free tier.
As part of the tutorial I had to install NVIDIA driver from the extension and marketplace, but the status shows that it's not supported

[Saving spatialanalysis to store]\n)"] failed.
Microsoft.Azure.Devices.Edge.Agent.Edgelet.EdgeletCommunicationException- Messa                                                                                                     ge:Error calling start module spatialanalysis: Could not start module spatialan                                                                                                     alysis
        caused by: Could not start module spatialanalysis
        caused by: OCI runtime create failed: container_linux.go:380: starting                                                                                                      container process caused: process_linux.go:545: container init caused: Running                                                                                                      hook #1:: error running hook: exit status 1, stdout: , stderr: nvidia-container                                                                                                     -cli: initialization error: nvml error: driver not loaded: unknown, StatusCode:                                                                                                     500, at:   at Microsoft.Azure.Devices.Edge.Agent.Edgelet.Version_2019_11_05.Mod                                                                                                     uleManagementHttpClient.HandleException(Exception exception, String operation)                                                                                                      in /home/vsts/work/1/s/edge-agent/src/Microsoft.Azure.Devices.Edge.Agent.Edgele                                                                                                     t/version_2019_11_05/ModuleManagementHttpClient.cs:line 223

Answer 1

Hello @Joseph Sowah ,

I looked up the documentation and the tutorial to run it on a VM:

To run the Spatial Analysis container, you need a compute device with a NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPU

That's why the installation of the NVIDIA software fails on a generic VM.

The suggested NC60 offers access to one of these T4 GPUs.

This requirement is repeated in the official blog.

The alternatives are running the logic on a desktop PC with the right GPU card or an Azure Stack Edge device.