Installing the last Nvidia GPU driver
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The compute capability of the Nvidia GPU equipped to your system should not be less than 5. To check the compute capability of a GPU, please refer to the following Nvidia web page. Depending on your system, you are invited to follow the instructions below.

Windows
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To install the latest Nvidia GPU driver, please download the driver from the following Nvidia link `<https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Windows&target_arch=x86_64>`_. Please launch the downloaded installer, and follow the instructions.


Linux Debian
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To install the latest Nvidia GPU on Linux based operating systems, please follow the steps below:

* Open a terminal

* To add GPU driver’s repository, enter the following command

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      sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

* Update the package repository information

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      sudo apt update

* Upgrade all packages on your system

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      sudo apt upgrade

* Find out what proprietary driver packages are available. This information is available on NVIDIA’s site: `<https://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html>`_ .
* In the case of Ubuntu just the following command can be used
    
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      Ubuntu-drivers list

* A list of available packages will be displayed (see picture above). To install the latest package, replace “VERSION_NUMBER” in the next command with the highest version number in the list of available packages. For example : “nvidia-driver-415” .

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      sudo apt install nvidia-driver-VERSION_NUMBER

* Reboot your computer so that the new driver is loaded.