Edge Insights for Vision — an automatic way to install Intel GPU drivers for AI application development

Using Intel GPUs for AI software development requires drivers to be installed. In order to make your work more efficient, we have created a solution that allows you to install them automatically. Find out what Edge Insights for Vision is and how it can help you in your daily work.

Authors: Mushtaq Ahmed, Chun Sheong Foong, and Don Liu

What is Edge Insights for Vision?

Edge Insights for Vision (EIV) from Intel features a set of pre-integrated ingredients designed for computer vision and deep-learning inference for applications at the edge, optimized for Intel® architecture. It can be implemented as a containerized architecture or a stand-alone runtime.

This package contains the scripts to install Intel® Graphics drivers and set up the environment for OpenVINO™ inference on CPU and Intel® Graphics devices.

Here is the architecture diagram for EIV:

Why using EIV is better than installing drivers manually

As there are numerous Intel platforms, we may have integrated graphics as well as discrete graphics and graphics drivers will be updated from time to time. As a developer, you may have to spend time finding the right version of the driver and manually entering the commands, instead with EIV you can do all these with one command. EIV does the following things:

• detects platform,
• fetches the latest stable intel graphics driver,
• installs graphics driver,
• verifies the installation and validates the working of OpenVINO™ GPU inference.

EIV Installation

Make sure you meet System Requirements and have Ubuntu 22.04 LTS installed, once ready with OS open the terminal and run the following commands.

sudo apt -y install git
git clone https://github.com/intel/edge-insights-vision.git
cd edge-insights-vision
./eiv_install.sh

Further steps

EIV provides a helper script to launch OpenVINO™ Notebooks where you can run OpenVINO™ Inference on Intel CPU and GPU. Use the below commands to launch notebooks.

cd edge-insights-vision/scripts
./launch_notebooks.sh

For more information, please visit our repository.

Recommended System Requirements

• Processors:
  * 12th or 13th generation Intel® Core™ processors
  * Intel® N-series Processors
  * Intel® Core™ i3 Processor N-series
  * Intel® Arc™ A-Series Graphics
• At least 8GB of system RAM
• At least 64GB of available hard drive space
• Internet Connection
• Ubuntu 20.04-IoT or Ubuntu 22.04-IoT

Notices & Disclaimers

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Your costs and results may vary.

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