diff --git a/helper/gpu-setup b/helper/gpu-setup
index da19fd76..937d9cf0 100755
--- a/helper/gpu-setup
+++ b/helper/gpu-setup
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ policy_a100_split_7() {
     umask 022
     mkdir -p /dev/nvidia-caps
     for i in $(seq 0 6);do
-        instance_id=$(($i+7))
         nvidia-smi mig --id $gpu_uuid --create-gpu-instance 1g.5gb:$i --default-compute-instance
     done