Installation

Requirements

OS

We support most Linux distributions.

Nvidia GPUs

BioAlpha supports NVIDIA GPUs that have SM version 7.0, 7.5, 8.0 and 8.6. (All versions of Quadro RTX, T400, T600, T1000, RTX A4000, RTXA5000, RTXA6000, Geforce RTX 2000 to 3XXX, Geforce GTX1650 Ti).

If your new Nvidia GPU is not supported, please drop us an email to support@bioturing.com.

To get the compute capability on Linux, copy this code to terminal:

nvidia-smi --query-gpu=compute_cap --format=csv

Sample output:

compute_cap
8.6

CUDA Driver

We now support CUDA 11 and 12. You must first install the NVIDIA driver (version >= 525.60.13 for CUDA 12 and >= 450.80.02 for CUDA 11).

Use this command line to get the installed CUDA driver version:

nvidia-smi
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Installation using pip

Install Alpha SC package via https://alpha.bioturing.com/.

Click button Getting Started on the top right of the website. Then click Download button and choose CUDA version corresponding to your system, an installable link will appear.

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Copy the appeared command and execute.