Nvidia CUDA Toolkit

Description

cuda website
CUDA™ is a parallel computing platform and programming model invented by NVIDIA. It enables dramatic increases in computing performance by harnessing the power of the graphics processing unit (GPU). With millions of CUDA-enabled GPUs sold to date, software developers, scientists and researchers are finding broad-ranging uses for GPU computing with CUDA.

Environment Modules

Use the 'module avail' command after loading a cuda environment module to see the available module trees or see which compiler and openmpi modules require the cuda module to be loaded.

System Variables

HPC_CUDA_DIR
HPC_CUDA_BIN
HPC_CUDA_INC
HPC_CUDA_LIB

Program Development

Environment

For CUDA development please load the "cuda" module. Doing so will ensure that your environment is set up correctly for the use of the CUDA compiler, header files, and libraries. The cuda versions below are currently supported on hipergator.

Expand to view example of loading/using cuda.

$ module spider cuda
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cuda:
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    Description:
      NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit

     Versions:
        cuda/10.0.130
        cuda/11.0.207
        cuda/11.1.0
        cuda/11.4.3
        cuda/11.6
        cuda/12.2.0
        cuda/12.2.2
        cuda/12.4.1

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  For detailed information about a specific "cuda" module (including how to load the modules) use the module full name.
  For example:

     $ module spider cuda/10.0.130
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$ module load cuda/10.0.130

$ which nvcc
/apps/compilers/cuda/10.0.130/bin/nvcc

$ printenv | grep CUDA
HPC_CUDA_LIB=/apps/compilers/cuda/10.0.130/lib64
HPC_CUDA_DIR=/apps/compilers/cuda/10.0.130
HPC_CUDA_BIN=/apps/compilers/cuda/10.0.130/bin
HPC_CUDA_INC=/apps/compilers/cuda/10.0.130/include
UFRC_FAMILY_CUDA_VERSION=10.0.130

Selecting CUDA Arch Flags

When compiling with NVCC, you need to specify the Nvidia architecture that the CUDA files will be compiled for. Please refer to GPU Feature List for CUDA naming scheme sm_xy where x denotes the GPU generation and y denotes the version. The table below lists the SM flags for the three types of GPUs on HiPerGator.

SM	Nvidia Cards
SM_37	Tesla K80 (No longer available)
SM_61	GeForce GTX 1080Ti
SM_75	GeForce RTX 2080Ti
SM_80	DGX A100

Sample GPU Batch Job Scripts

See the Example_SLURM-GPU-Job-Scripts page for an example.