Hardware and software requirements

cuFFTMp relies on NVSHMEM for GPU-initiated communications. It inherits many of its requirements.

Hardware requirements

• x86_64 or ppc64le CPU architecture

• NVIDIA data center GPUs, of the Volta, Ampere or Hopper architecture

• All GPUs should be

  • peer-to-peer connected

  • or connected via GPUDirect RDMA over Infiniband using a Mellanox adapter (CX-4 or later)

Warning

Note that being merely connected via PCIe does not guarantee peer-to-peer access between GPUs. Also note that NVLink is not required for peer-to-peer access, but it is the preferred transport.

Software requirements

cuFFTMp is shipped as part of the HPC SDK and requires

• Linux 64 bits

• CUDA 11.0 or later