NVIDIA DGX Spark Porting Guide

To reach new levels of productivity and AI performance, the NVIDIA DGX Spark platform combines high-performance, efficient ARM cores with a powerful integrated Blackwell GPU with unified memory.

This guide is also available for download as a PDF.

Overview

• System Overview
  • Hardware
  • Software
• ARM CPU Architecture
• SIMD

Porting Applications

• Porting Existing Apps
  • Dependencies & Tools
  • DGX Spark Software Stack
  • Setup and Build Systems
  • CPU Instruction Extensions
  • ARM Memory Ordering
  • CUDA

Optimization

• Optimization for DGX Spark
  • General practices
  • Compiler configuration
  • .NET applications
  • Programming CUDA on UMA systems
  • Memory reporting on UMA systems (including DGX Spark)
  • Profiling
  • Links

Additional Resources

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