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.