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# What requirements does the accelerator base image have?

For W\&B Launch jobs that use an accelerator, provide a base image that includes the necessary accelerator components. This ensures that your job has the required GPU drivers, runtime libraries, and other hardware-specific dependencies to execute. The accelerator image must meet the following requirements:

* Compatibility with Debian (the Launch Dockerfile uses `apt-get` to install Python).
* Supported CPU and GPU hardware instruction set (confirm the CUDA version compatibility with the intended GPU).
* Compatibility between the supplied accelerator version and the packages in the machine learning algorithm.
* Installation of packages that require additional steps for hardware compatibility.