Hardware and software requirements

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

Hardware requirements

  • x86_64 and aarch64 CPU architecture

  • NVIDIA Data Center GPU of the NVIDIA Volta™ GPU architecture or later.

  • 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.

Warning

On aarch64, cuFFTMp supports Grace-Hopper as peer-to-peer is supported.

Software requirements

cuFFTMp is shipped as part of the HPC SDK and requires

  • Linux 64 bits

  • A CPU with x86_64 and aarch64 architecture

  • CUDA 11.0 or later