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, DeepStream, Holoscan, Rivermax, GXF, Ethernet Switch, ARC-OTA, RAPIDS, DOCA, or DRIVE product release you are installing.

Category

Requirement

Host machine:

x86_64 systems

  • Ubuntu Desktop 16.04, 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04

  • CentOS 8.2

  • Red Hat 8.2

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

  • Debian: 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 Jetson + 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-OTA) / 12GB (gNB - Aerial) / 1GB (5GC - ARC-OTA) 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 RAPIDS SDK: A minimum of 19GB free disk space on the system root is needed for each full (host only) 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.

Screen resolution

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

Compatibility Matrix#

See NVIDIA SDK Manager’s supported SDKs in the host operating system compatibility matrix.

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 + A100 + Mellanox CX6DX

  • Dell PowerEdge R750 + A100X

  • Dell PowerEdge R750 + A800X

  • Supermicro Grace Hopper MGX System

5GC Targets - ARC-OTA

  • Gigabyte Edge E251-U70

  • Dell PowerEdge R750

  • Supermicro Grace Hopper MGX System

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.

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