System Requirements

Note

The system requirements of NVIDIA SDK Manager may differ from the system requirements of the specific SDK you are installing. Refer to the system requirements for the specific Jetson, Holoscan, Rivermax, DOCA, Ethernet Switch, ARC-OTA, DRIVE, or RAPIDS product release you are installing.

Category

Requirement

Host machine:

x86_64 systems

  • Ubuntu Desktop 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04

  • CentOS 7.6, 8.0, and 8.2

  • Rocky Linux 8.6

  • Red Hat 7.6, 8.0, 8.2, and 8.6

    • Ensure you are registered under a Red Hat account and attached to the correct subscription.

  • Debian 10: 10.8

    Note

    While SDK Manager supports the above host operating systems, you need to verify the SDK package supports the host OS; the requirements are set by the SDK package you are installing. See the compatibility matrix for details

Internet

Working internet connection

Memory

8GB

Free disk space

NVIDIA Jetson: A minimum of 27GB (host) + 16GB (target) free disk space on the system volume is needed for each full (host and target) deployed SDK version.

NVIDIA Jetson + DeepStream: A minimum of 29GB (host) + 17GB (target) free disk space on the system volume is needed for each full (host and target) deployed SDK version.

NVIDIA Jetson + DeepStream + Rivermax: A minimum of 29GB (host) + 18GB (target) free disk space on the system volume is needed for each full (host and target) deployed SDK version.

NVIDIA Holoscan: A minimum of 40GB (host) + 12GB (target) free disk space on the system volume is needed for each full (host and target) deployed SDK version.

NVIDIA ARC-OTA + Aerial: A minimum of 15GB (gNB - ARC) / 12GB (gNB - Aerial) / 1GB (5GC - ARC) free disk space on the system volume is needed for each full (host and target) deployed SDK version.

NVIDIA Ethernet Switch: A minimum of 5GB free disk space is needed for each full (host and target) deployed SDK version.

NVIDIA DRIVE: A minimum of 44GB free disk space on the system volume is needed for each full (host and target) deployed SDK version.

NVIDIA DOCA SDK: A minimum of 35GB free disk space on the system root is needed for each full (host and target) deployed SDK version.

NVIDIA RAPIDS SDK: A minimum of 19GB free disk space on the system root is needed for each full (host only) deployed SDK version.

Screen resolution

Screen resolution equal to or larger than 1440x900 (1052x411) is recommended for GUI mode.

Compatibility Matrix

NVIDIA SDK

SDK Version

Supported Host Operating System

Ubuntu

CentOS

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Rocky Linux

Debian

16.04

18.04

20.04

22.04

7.6

8.0

8.2

7.6

8.0

8.2

8.6

8.6

10.8

JetPack

JetPack 4.x

X

X

JetPack 5.x

X

X

JetPack 6.x

X

X

Holoscan

HoloPack 1.x

X

HoloPack 2.0

X

X

HoloPack 2.1

X

X

Rivermax

Rivermax 1.1x

X

X

Rivermax 1.2x, 1.3x

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Rivermax 1.4x

X

X

DeepStream

DeepStream 6.x

X

X

Ethernet Switch

Ethernet Switch 4.x

X

X

X

ARC-OTA

Aerial 22-4

X

Aerial 23-x

X

X

X

ARC-OTA 1.x

X

X

X

DRIVE OS

DRIVE OS 5.0.x

X

DRIVE OS 6.0.x

X

RAPIDS SDK

24.x

X

DOCA

DOCA 1.x

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

DOCA 2.0.x

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

DOCA 2.2.x

X

X

X

X

Target Device

The following development platforms are supported with NVIDIA SDK Manager.

Product

Supported Target Platforms

Jetson

Jetson AGX Orin modules

Jetson AGX Orin NX modules

Jetson AGX Xavier modules

Jetson Orin Nano modules

Jetson Xavier NX modules

Jetson TX2 modules

Jetson TX1 modules

Jetson Nano modules

Holoscan

Rivermax

Ethernet Switch

Series 2

  • MSN2010

  • MSN2100

  • MSN2201

  • MSN2410

  • MSN2700

Series 3

  • MSN3420

  • MSN3700

  • MSN 3750

  • MSN3800

Series 4

  • MSN4410

  • MSN4600

  • MSN4700

  • MSN4800

Series 5

  • MSN5600

ARC-OTA

gNB Targets - ARC-OTA and Aerial

  • (Gigabyte E251-U70 or Dell R750) + A100 + Mellanox CX6DX

  • (Gigabyte E251-U70 or Dell R750) + A100X

  • (Gigabyte E251-U70 or Dell R750) + A800X

5GC Targets - ARC-OTA

  • Gigabyte E251-U70

  • Dell R750

DRIVE

DOCA

BlueField-3 DPU

BlueField-2 DPU

Note

Note that the supported target hardware can vary, depending on the version of the target operating system you want to install.

Additional Hardware

Product

Hardware Requirements

Jetson / Holoscan

Holoscan

  • An NVIDIA Quadro® or Tesla® GPU that supports CUDA 11.1 is required.

  • If training a new model from a data set, the GPU must have at least 8GB of GDDR memory.

Rivermax

DRIVE

  • A2A USB 2.0 cable to connect the Linux host to the target

RAPIDS SDK

  • GPU: NVIDIA Volta™ or higher with compute capability 7.0+.

DOCA

  • Cables are provided with your DPU package to the NC-SI UART and USB interfaces of the DPU/DPU Controller.

DRIVE Users: Graphics Driver

DRIVE releases will support graphics drivers for x86_64 host development on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS workstations in either the following two forms:

  1. Standard .run file installers (GeForce/Quadro GPUs) from the LINUX AMD64 DISPLAY DRIVER ARCHIVE. These drivers are recommended for general development use on DRIVE OS supported GPUs.

  2. Tesla GPUs recommended drivers from the NVIDIA CUDA public repository. TR drivers support all NVIDIA GPUs, including Tesla products, and GeForce/Quadro GPUs. TR drivers are installed from apt-get from NVIDIA’s online Debian repository and will be able to receive updates up to four times a year for each release.

To display the most current graphics driver for the version of the CUDA toolkit you are installing, refer to Linux AMD64 Display Driver Archive.

DRIVE OS QNX Users

DRIVE OS QNX SDKs require QNX SDP. For specific installation instructions, refer to the quickstart guide and release notes for the DRIVE OS QNX product you are installing.