Installation

Pre-requisites

This section describes the recommended dependencies to use nvCOMP.

• Linux distribution:

  • x86_64

    • Debian 12

    • Fedora 41

    • RHEL 8, 9

    • Rockylinux 8, 9

    • OpenSUSE 15

    • SLES 15

    • Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04

    • WSL 2 Ubuntu

  • 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 >= 525.60.13 (Linux) and >= 527.41 (Windows)

• CUDA Toolkit > = 12.0

• 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 binary packages from the nvCOMP Developer Page or install the nvCOMP Python module from PyPI as it is described below. A standalone C++ module for nvCOMP is now also available. By installing the nvidia-nvcomp-cu{12|13} module, the nvidia-libnvcomp-cu{12|13} gets installed automatically.

• nvCOMP C++ for CUDA 12.x

  pip install nvidia-libnvcomp-cu12
  

• nvCOMP Python for CUDA 12.x

  pip install nvidia-nvcomp-cu12
  

• nvCOMP C++ for CUDA 13.x

  pip install nvidia-libnvcomp-cu13
  

• nvCOMP Python for CUDA 13.x

  pip install nvidia-nvcomp-cu13