I think I tried that a year ago, and it didn’t work. Documentation agrees, it says “GRID drivers redistributed by Azure do not work on non-NV series VMs like NCv2, NCv3” https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/wind... Microsoft support told me the same. I wanted NCv3 because on paper, V100 GPU is good at FP64 arithmetic which we use a lot in our compute shaders.
Use: nvidia-smi -g {GPU_ID} -dm 0
Cloud providers do pay for an extensive vGPU license, don't worry about that part.
> DirectCompute is a low-level tech, a subset of D3D11 and 12.
D3D11. The compute subset of D3D12 is named D3D12 and directly got rolled into that. Also, you have CLon12 today which does support SPIR-V.