Hi Numba CUDA users,
We’re planning to drop support for the CUDA toolkit 8.0 in Numba 0.52. CUDA versions 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2 and 11.0 will still be supported.
Using CUDA 9.0 and 10.0 still allows for support for devices going back to Compute Capability 3.0 / Kepler, but it will no longer be possible to use Fermi devices (Fermi support has also been dropped from NVIDIA drivers for some time also).
If this is likely to cause issues, please do reply to this post with an explanation of the use case / setup.
As a general policy, we’ll aim to support CUDA Toolkit versions in Numba from the last three years, assuming that this doesn’t cause too many maintenance difficulties. CUDA 9.0 was first released exactly three years ago in September 2017, but we have no plans to drop support for it as yet.
Any other feedback / thoughts on the policy are welcomed! 