Installation

Pre-requisites

This section describes the recommended dependencies to use nvCOMP.

• Linux distro:

  • x86_64

    • Debian 12

    • Fedora 41

    • RHEL 8, 9

    • OpenSUSE 15

    • SLES 15

    • Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04

    • WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04

  • arm64-sbsa

    • RHEL 8, 9

    • SLES 15

    • Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04

• Microsoft Windows >= 10

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable >= 14

• NVIDIA driver >= 450.80.02

• CUDA Toolkit > = 11.2

• Python >= 3.8

• GCC >= 8.5 (GCC >= 9.x on Linux x86_64)

• cmake >= 3.18

Install nvCOMP library

You can download and install the appropriate built binary packages from the nvCOMP Developer Page or install nvCOMP Python from PyPI as it is described below.

• nvCOMP Python for CUDA 11.x

  pip install nvidia-nvcomp-cu11
  

• nvCOMP Python for CUDA 12.x

  pip install nvidia-nvcomp-cu12