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Home » Community » Coffee corner » Has anyone used CUDA with UPP?
Has anyone used CUDA with UPP? [message #10798] |
Sun, 29 July 2007 22:49 |
nixnixnix
Messages: 415 Registered: February 2007 Location: Kelowna, British Columbia
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CUDA is NVidia's API for writing programmes which use the GPU for calculations. Anyone with a GeForce 8800 or better should be able to use this API.
Unfortunately though all the examples are written for VC++ and they also need to be compiled with a special compiler (nvcc.exe) and tinkering with this sort of stuff is not in my comfort zone so am wondering if anyone else on here has had a play and got it working?
If you want to find out more about CUDA you can go here
<a href="http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cuda.html"> </a>
where there are lots of cool free toys to download and play with as well as guides to what the hell they are. Ok, back to being befuddled for me....
Nick
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Re: Has anyone used CUDA with UPP? [message #10800 is a reply to message #10798] |
Mon, 30 July 2007 00:03 |
mr_ped
Messages: 825 Registered: November 2005 Location: Czech Republic - Praha
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"CUDA and its libraries are compiled with gcc 3.4.5 and the same tools should be
used on other distributions. Alternatively, compatibility packages containing
libstdc++.so.6 may be used. These are available for many Linux distributions.
For example, on recent Fedora Core releases, the compat-libstdc++-34 is needed."
btw, the libraries itself will be very likely just binary, so it is not worth of adding to U++ default packages.
Still if somebody manages to make a package for easy usage in U++, it will help you... You need to hope there's somebody experienced enough who can do that.
Anyway, the supported linux flavors so far are only Red Hat and OpenSUSE, no Debian/Ubuntu, so I can't help with this.
I'm not experienced enough to hack Red Hat package to work on Debian...
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Re: Has anyone used CUDA with UPP? [message #10807 is a reply to message #10800] |
Mon, 30 July 2007 15:43 |
nixnixnix
Messages: 415 Registered: February 2007 Location: Kelowna, British Columbia
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Thanks for taking the time to look at this. Yeah I wasn't so much looking for it to be incorporated into U++ as to be able to configure theIDE to be able to make use of CUDA with a UPP interface. It seems that this must be possible but that I need to learn more about how to do a "custom build"? or some such. Its kind of a side project for me just now but yes, I'm sure that if there was a configuration (or howto) for using CUDA it could well attract new users.
Thanks again,
Nick
p.s. the whole CUDA thing is pretty new so I suspect they will support more platforms as things progress.
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