------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NVIDIA CUDA Visual Profiler Linux Release Notes Version 3.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PLEASE REFER EULA.txt FOR THE LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR USING NVIDIA SOFTWARE. Please refer Changelog.txt for changes with respect to the previous version. FILES IN THE RELEASE: -------------------- * cudaprof/bin/cudaprof : CUDA Visual Profiler Executable * cudaprof/bin/libQt*.so.4 : Qt shared libraries * cudaprof/projects : Directory containing sample profiler projects * cudaprof/doc : Directory containing files for user documentation. SUPPORTED LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS ----------------------------- NVIDIA CUDA Visual Profiler is supported and tested on the following Linux distributions: 32-bit operating systems * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 64-bit operating systems * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 CUDA Visual Profiler is compiled with gcc 3.4.6 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. Note that there is a separate CUDA Visual Profiler package for 32-bit and 64-bit linux distributions. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ------------------- . CUDA compatible NVIDIA GPU Card . NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit INSTALLATION AND SETUP --------------------- The installation is part of the CUDA toolkit installation. The files are installed under "<CudaToolkitDir>/cudaprof" where <CudaToolkitDir> is the directory under which the CUDA Toolkit is installed. Setup LD_LIBRARY PATH to include the CudaVisualProfiler bin directory: > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:<CudaToolkitDir>/cudaprof/bin RUNNING CUDA Visual Profiler ---------------------------- > <CudaToolkitDir>/cudaprof/bin/cudaprof & Refer the CUDA Visual Profiler cudaprof.html document for more information. KNOWN ISSUES ------------ 1) The CUDA Visual Profiler does not detect the CUDA version and does not disable any incompatible features. 2) You need to use the command line argument "--noprompt" for running most of the CUDA SDK samples. You can enable the "Run in separate window" checkbox in the Session settings dialog to open a separate window. Only with this option you can give some keyboard input for console-based CUDA programs.