System prerequisites to offload computations to the NVIDIA GPUs
To compile and link programs that contain code to be offloaded to the NVIDIA GPUs with IBM® XL Fortran for Linux, V15.1.5, such as using OpenMP directives or CUDA Fortran, you must ensure that your hardware, operating system, and software meet these requirements.
Hardware requirements
You can use any IBM Power Systems™ server that has one or more NVIDIA GPUs installed and is supported by your Linux operating system distribution and CUDA Toolkit. For example, you can use IBM POWER® System S822LC for high performance computing or IBM POWER System S824L. For a complete list of the IBM Power Systems servers, see http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/.
Supported platforms
You can use the following little endian operating systems supported by the IBM Power Systems servers and NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 8.0:- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 (RHEL 7.3)
- Ubuntu 16.04.1
Software requirements
- NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 8.0, which you can download
from https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloadsNote: To install the CUDA Toolkit, use the Package Manager installation. The Runfile installation is currently not supported on Power® processors. For instructions about Package Manager installation, see the NVIDIA CUDA Installation Guide for Linux.
