System prerequisites for offloading to the NVIDIA GPUs

To compile and link programs that contain code to be offloaded to the NVIDIA GPUs with IBM® XL C/C++ for Linux, you must ensure these operating system, hardware, and software requirements are met.

  • Use any IBM Power Systems™ server that has one or more NVIDIA GPUs installed and is supported by your Linux operating system distribution and the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit.
  • Use the supported little endian operating system.
  • Install NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 9.0 or 9.1.
For more information, see System prerequisites to offload computations to the NVIDIA GPUs in the XL C/C++ Installation Guide.
Parent topic: Offloading computations to the NVIDIA GPUs


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