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 # A image for building paddle binaries
 # Use cuda devel base image for both cpu and gpu environment
-FROM nvidia/cuda:8.0-cudnn5-devel-ubuntu16.04
+FROM nvidia/cuda:8.0-cudnn7-devel-ubuntu16.04
 MAINTAINER PaddlePaddle Authors <paddle-dev@baidu.com>
 
 ARG UBUNTU_MIRROR