Is HPC Pack 2019 compatible with Nvidia HPC SDK?

Question

According to the How to use GPU compute nodes documentation:

Currently, HPC Pack only supports the CUDA-compatible products, for example, the NVidia Tesla series. See the Nvidia site for a more detailed list of supported products.

I am wondering, does this include usage of the Nvidia HPC SDK as well? As far as I know, the Nvidia HPC SDK is built on top of CUDA, so I believe this should work, but I would like to know whether there are any known issues or incompatibilities with this combination.

Currently Nvidia HPC SDK is only available for Linux, so this would obviously apply to Linux compute nodes only.

Answer 1

@sweemer

HPC Pack Linux node agent uses nvidia-smi to fetch the GPU info, we don’t use NVIDIA HPC SDK directly.
But you can use any SDK at your discretion, just make sure nvidia-smi can work on the node.

Hope this helps.

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