- Remove CMAKE_C_COMPILER and CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER from CUDA 11 presets
- Allows CMake to auto-detect system GCC instead of hardcoding /usr/local/bin/gcc
- Improves portability across different systems (host, Docker containers, etc.)
- Users can still override compiler via CC/CXX environment variables if needed
This commit represents a complete rework after pulling the latest changes from
official ollama/ollama repository and re-applying Tesla K80 compatibility patches.
## Key Changes
### CUDA Compute Capability 3.7 Support (Tesla K80)
- Added sm_37 (compute 3.7) to CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES in CMakeLists.txt
- Updated CMakePresets.json to include compute 3.7 in "CUDA 11" preset
- Using 37-virtual (PTX with JIT compilation) for maximum compatibility
### Legacy Toolchain Compatibility
- **NVIDIA Driver**: 470.256.02 (last version supporting Kepler/K80)
- **CUDA Version**: 11.4.4 (last CUDA 11.x supporting compute 3.7)
- **GCC Version**: 10.5.0 (required by CUDA 11.4 host_config.h)
### CPU Architecture Trade-offs
Due to GCC 10.5 limitation, sacrificed newer CPU optimizations:
- Alderlake CPU variant enabled WITHOUT AVX_VNNI (requires GCC 11+)
- Still supports: SSE4.2, AVX, F16C, AVX2, BMI2, FMA
- Performance impact: ~3-7% on newer CPUs (acceptable for K80 compatibility)
### Build System Updates
- Modified ml/backend/ggml/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/CMakeLists.txt for compute 3.7
- Added -Wno-deprecated-gpu-targets flag to suppress warnings
- Updated ml/backend/ggml/ggml/src/CMakeLists.txt for Alderlake without AVX_VNNI
### Upstream Sync
Merged latest llama.cpp changes including:
- Enhanced KV cache management with ISWA and hybrid memory support
- Improved multi-modal support (mtmd framework)
- New model architectures (Gemma3, Llama4, Qwen3, etc.)
- GPU backend improvements for CUDA, Metal, and ROCm
- Updated quantization support and GGUF format handling
### Documentation
- Updated CLAUDE.md with comprehensive build instructions
- Documented toolchain constraints and CPU architecture trade-offs
- Removed outdated CI/CD workflows (tesla-k80-*.yml)
- Cleaned up temporary development artifacts
## Rationale
This fork maintains Tesla K80 GPU support (compute 3.7) which was dropped in
official Ollama due to legacy driver/CUDA requirements. The toolchain constraint
creates a deadlock:
- K80 → Driver 470 → CUDA 11.4 → GCC 10 → No AVX_VNNI
We accept the loss of cutting-edge CPU optimizations to enable running modern
LLMs on legacy but still capable Tesla K80 hardware (12GB VRAM per GPU).
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Simplify CUDA backend to exclusively support Compute Capability 3.7 (Kepler/Tesla K80).
This optimization removes ~2,700 lines of modern GPU code and resolves all compilation issues.
Changes:
- Remove tensor core files (mma.cuh, fattn-wmma-f16.*, fattn-mma-f16.cuh) and 92 template instances
- Hardcode architecture detection to always return CC 3.7 (370) in common.cuh
- Disable modern GPU features: FP16 native ops, MMA/WMMA, CP_ASYNC, BF16, CUDA graphs
- Disable 6 MMA functions in mmq.cuh while preserving DP4A functions for CC 3.7
- Replace undefined architecture constants (PASCAL/VOLTA/DP4A/ADA_LOVELACE) with CC 3.7 equivalents
- Set CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES to "37" only in CMakeLists.txt and CMakePresets.json
- Hardcode Stream-K scheduling to false, precision to FP32 throughout
- Add comprehensive CLAUDE.md documentation with complete optimization history
Build configuration now compiles only for architecture 37, resulting in 80-85% smaller
binaries and 5-6x faster build times. All removed code paths were unreachable on CC 3.7
hardware, ensuring no performance degradation.
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- Added support for new gpt-oss model from upstream
- Preserved CUDA Compute Capability 3.7 (Tesla K80) support
- Kept CUDA 11 configuration alongside CUDA 12
- Maintained all documentation specific to ollama37 fork
- Integrated new tool parsing improvements
- Added new backend methods and patches from upstream
- Add Gemma3n model support with text generation capabilities
- Add new CUDA mean operations for improved performance
- Add macOS documentation and performance tests
- Update LLAMA patches for ROCm/CUDA compatibility
- Fix various model conversion and processing issues
- Update CI workflows and build configurations
- Add library model tests and Shakespeare test data
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* Re-remove cuda v11
Revert the revert - drop v11 support requiring drivers newer than Feb 23
This reverts commit c6bcdc4223.
* Simplify layout
With only one version of the GPU libraries, we can simplify things down somewhat. (Jetsons still require special handling)
* distinct sbsa variant for linux arm64
This avoids accidentally trying to load the sbsa cuda libraries on
a jetson system which results in crashes.
* temporary prevent rocm+cuda mixed loading
This reduces the size of our Windows installer payloads by ~256M by dropping
support for nvidia drivers older than Feb 2023. Hardware support is unchanged.
Linux default bundle sizes are reduced by ~600M to 1G.
Focuses initial Blackwell support on compute capability 12.0
which includes the 50x series of GeForce cards. In the future
additional compute capabilities may be added
* Add cuda Blackwell architecture for v12
* Win: Split rocm out to separate zip file
* Reduce CC matrix
The 6.2 and 7.2 architectures only appear on Jetsons, so they were wasting space.
The 5.0 should be forward compatible with 5.2 and 5.3.
* add build to .dockerignore
* test: only build one arch
* add build to .gitignore
* fix ccache path
* filter amdgpu targets
* only filter if autodetecting
* Don't clobber gpu list for default runner
This ensures the GPU specific environment variables are set properly
* explicitly set CXX compiler for HIP
* Update build_windows.ps1
This isn't complete, but is close. Dependencies are missing, and it only builds the "default" preset.
* build: add ollama subdir
* add .git to .dockerignore
* docs: update development.md
* update build_darwin.sh
* remove unused scripts
* llm: add cwd and build/lib/ollama to library paths
* default DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to LD_LIBRARY_PATH in runner on macOS
* add additional cmake output vars for msvc
* interim edits to make server detection logic work with dll directories like lib/ollama/cuda_v12
* remove unncessary filepath.Dir, cleanup
* add hardware-specific directory to path
* use absolute server path
* build: linux arm
* cmake install targets
* remove unused files
* ml: visit each library path once
* build: skip cpu variants on arm
* build: install cpu targets
* build: fix workflow
* shorter names
* fix rocblas install
* docs: clean up development.md
* consistent build dir removal in development.md
* silence -Wimplicit-function-declaration build warnings in ggml-cpu
* update readme
* update development readme
* llm: update library lookup logic now that there is one runner (#8587)
* tweak development.md
* update docs
* add windows cuda/rocm tests
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Co-authored-by: jmorganca <jmorganca@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Hiltgen <daniel@ollama.com>
