Use CUDA 7.0 NVRTC with Thrust
Runtime Compilation (NVRTC) introduced in CUDA 7.0 allows to dynamically compile CUDA kernels during program execution (see example). This functionality allows to...
Get extra 8% perf in bilinear interpolation on GPU using __restrict__ keyword
Starting from GK110 (Tesla Kepler), “const restrict” annotation on kernel argument has an extra GPU-specific meaning: accesses to that argument should go through ...
Thrust/CUDA tip: reuse temporary buffer across multiple transforms
Thrust is a very handy STL-like template library for rapid data processing on GPUs.
On-the-fly modification of LLVM IR code of CUDA sources
Largely thanks to LLVM, in recent years we’ve seen a significant increase of interest to domain-specific compilation tools research & development. With the re...
How to find CUDA's version of LLVM backend
It is well-known that CUDA toolkit uses LLVM backend, but the used version number is not shown. We can use gdb and LLVM API function to print the version string:
NVIDIA Visual Profiler allows to connect 64-bit Linux server from 32-bit Windows
In CUDA 6.0 release an extremely handy feature has been added to Visual Profiler: support for remote profiling. This means that you can run the profiler GUI from ...
Calling CUDA device function from OpenACC Fortran kernel
OpenACC is known to be a fast method of developing quite efficient GPU-enabled applications. It is also possible to mix CUDA kernels and libraries with OpenACC ke...
Jetson K1: bandwidthTest
Chart on the left shows the bandwidths of memory transfers on Jetson K1 (Click to enlarge). For the baseline we also added GTX680M’s host-device and device-host (...
Jetson K1: from unboxing straight to CUDA in 5 steps
We finally got the most wanted Jetson K1 board in the house! In this post we show how to turn a just unboxed tiny board into fully-functional CUDA development nod...
How to break Ubuntu 13.04/14.04 with vanilla CUDA driver and unbreak it back
After installing CUDA driver from NVIDIA website, Ubuntu 13.04/14.04 window manager decorations (Unity, via Compiz) may stop working properly on Optimus machines ...