cuquantum.BaseCUDAMemoryManager

class cuquantum.BaseCUDAMemoryManager(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Protocol for memory manager plugins.

See also

numba.cuda.BaseCUDAMemoryManager

Methods

__init__(*args, **kwargs)
abstract memalloc(size)[source]

Allocate device memory.

Parameters

size – The size of the memory buffer in bytes.

Returns

An object that owns the allocated memory and is responsible for releasing it (to the OS or a pool). The object must have an attribute named device_ptr, device_pointer, or ptr specifying the pointer to the allocated memory buffer. See MemoryPointer for an example interface.

Note

Objects of type numba.cuda.MemoryPointer as well as cupy.cuda.MemoryPointer meet the requirements listed above for the device memory pointer object.