#Cuda emulator windows 8 how to#

Visual Studio Express on 64-bit Systems: Installing Visual Studio Express on a 64-bit system does not immediately provide you with a 64-bit development environment. With two compilers, there are four times as many things that can go wrong. Another way of saying this is that programming is easy it's understanding the environment in which you work which can be difficult! Nowhere is this more true than in the case of CUDA, where we are compiling not with one but with two separate compilers.

If you can compile the 'Hello, World' program, it means that you have installed your compiler successfully. Today, one needs only click on the 'Setup' icon, but in those days installing a compiler was an accomplishment in its own right. There were include directories which had to be referenced by environment variables, and there had to be folders for runtime libraries, and all the components had to have a correct mutual relationship. In the early days of C compilers, merely installing the compiler and getting it to run was not a trivial task. So much so, in fact, that people forget that the first 'Hello, World' program had a very important point, far beyond a simple piece of sample code.

The 'Hello, World' program has been seen so often it has, to some degree, become a cliche. This article reviews the fundamental organization of a Visual Studio project for compiling CUDA code in the hopes that folks can get to the fun part, the crafting of new code, as quickly as possible.

#Cuda emulator windows 8 how to#

Precious little information is available to help those getting started to understand exactly how to organize, compile and link their code. Lots of sample code is available to start learning how to use NVidia's CUDA development platform to create stunningly fast parallel floating-point code for execution on graphics processing units.