Fastai2 on GCP with the "deeplearning-platform-release" image?

[markphillips]

Until the GCP images are updated with newer cuda drivers, the instructions in this post work for the fastai 2 release:

Platform: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

This how-to post was also posted in the Fastai2 and new course thread, but it seemed more appropriate here in the GCP Platform thread. Please note that fastai 2 requires torch-1.6.0 and torchvision-0.7.0. The cuda drivers on the platform image are 10.1 and too old for torch-1.6.0. There are no pytorch images in the deeplearning-platform-release family with 10.2 or 11 cuda drivers. However the 10.2 drivers can be updated per @micstan Here are the steps I followed to setup the GCP image with the …