From: Bruno Turcksin Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 15:15:57 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Error when using CUDA 12 with our own backend X-Git-Tag: v9.5.0-rc1~93^2 X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4edc6e0341b80ef798f40ea730d3078b061df03e;p=dealii.git Error when using CUDA 12 with our own backend --- diff --git a/cmake/configure/configure_40_cuda.cmake b/cmake/configure/configure_40_cuda.cmake index 46b9e9c205..6ac84c113e 100644 --- a/cmake/configure/configure_40_cuda.cmake +++ b/cmake/configure/configure_40_cuda.cmake @@ -61,6 +61,16 @@ macro(feature_cuda_find_external var) ) endif() + # + # We do not support CUDA 12.0 and newer: + # + if(CUDA_VERSION VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL 12.0) + message(FATAL_ERROR "\n" + "deal.II's own CUDA backend does not support CUDA version 12.0 or newer.\n" + "Instead, configure Kokkos with CUDA enabled." + ) + endif() + # # CUDA Toolkit 10 is incompatible with C++17. # Make sure that deal.II is configured appropriately diff --git a/doc/external-libs/cuda.html b/doc/external-libs/cuda.html index 5d1c9582ef..3eed499c0d 100644 --- a/doc/external-libs/cuda.html +++ b/doc/external-libs/cuda.html @@ -15,18 +15,14 @@

To compile and run CUDA code, you need to use an external Kokkos installation that has been configured with CUDA support. - This, in turn, requires a CUDA-enabled GPU, appropriate - drivers, the CUDA toolkit, and the nvcc compiler. Unlike other libraries, - you need special hardware and compiler to enable CUDA. Because the - hardware is always evolving, older GPUs do not support all the - capabilities of newer ones. In order to use CUDA with deal.II, you will - need your GPU to have compute capability 6.0 or higher. Independently - from the GPU itself, you also need a version of CUDA recent enough. - deal.II supports CUDA 10.2 and higher. + + To enable deal.II's own CUDA backend, you will need your GPU to have compute + capability 6.0 or higher. Independently from the GPU itself, you also need a + version of CUDA between 10.2 and 11.8.

- To configure deal.II with CUDA use the following option: + To configure deal.II's own CUDA backend use the following option:

 
         -DDEAL_II_WITH_CUDA=ON
@@ -43,7 +39,6 @@
       supports this feature, you can tell deal.II to use it by configuring with
       
 
-        -DDEAL_II_WITH_CUDA=ON
         -DDEAL_II_WITH_MPI=ON
         -DDEAL_II_MPI_WITH_DEVICE_SUPPORT=ON