2.18.1-1

Add support for IB SHARP to NVLS (NVLink SHARP algorithm).
Add NVLS+Tree algorithm.
Add support for memory management using cuMem* functions.
Use all NICs for Send/Receive operations on systems with more than
one NIC per GPU (#804).
Add ncclCommSplit primitive, with resource sharing option in config.
Fix alltoallv hang (#788)
Increase number of channels on H100 when we're not limited by NVLink.
Improve error reporting in case of IB failure, printing local and
remote ID (#779).
Add build option to allow compilation against RDMA includes instead
of dynamically loading IB verbs symbols (#802).
Fix context creation for progress thread (#803).
NET/IB: add option to use multiple QPs in round-robin mode.
Fix tree performance issue when NVB is disabled on HCM topologies.

makefiles/version.mk

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ##### version
 NCCL_MAJOR   := 2
-NCCL_MINOR   := 17
+NCCL_MINOR   := 18
 NCCL_PATCH   := 1
 NCCL_SUFFIX  :=
 PKG_REVISION := 1