#9 locate additinal features added in CUDA 8 that are worth integrating into cuda-z

[Alexander Stohr]

[this ticket might work as a master for general "brainstorming" whilst individual works on items might be put into multiple derived work package tickets]

as with the recent release of CUDA 8.0.44 nVidia has added several new features to their API.
this might include (but is not limited to):
native 8/16 bit data types
nvlink support
* Pascal architecture

please check what is really there and can be added to your tool in form of an informational display (caps query) or in form of a benchmark, or other sort of dealing with it.

[Andriy Golovnya]

Thanks for your proposal!

It might be interesting to add new features. Unfortunately I can't compile CUDA-Z with CUDA toolkit 7.5 and higher. It gives access violation cicc. I have to find some workaround for this difficulty before.

Beith best regards, AG

[Anonymous]

Hello,

On macOS 10.12 with latest Cuda toolkit 8 and latest Cuda driver 8.0.46 i get this error:

vcc warning : The 'compute20', 'sm20', and 'sm21' architectures are deprecated, and may be removed in a future release (Use -Wno-deprecated-gpu-targets to suppress warning).
nvcc fatal : The version ('80000') of the host compiler ('Apple clang') is not supported
the explanation from Nvidia is this:

For developers on Mac systems, click here to read a known limitation.
https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads#collapse3

Xcode 8 is not currently supported with the CUDA Toolkit 8 compiler for Mac. We are working on providing an update shortly. Until then, the developers should use Xcode 7.x with the CUDA Toolkit 8 for compiling their code on Mac macOS 10.12. Alternatively, they can run applications compiled with older versions of CUDA Toolkit and Mac/Xcode on Mac macOS 10.12.

After cache cleaning your CUDA-Z 0.10.251 works, but CUDA-Z 0.11.259 not anymore (did on El Capitan)

Thanks for your developping

[Andriy Golovnya]

Thanks for mentioning Mac OSX version of toolkit. It's finally come out as 8.0.47. Good to know!
I hope this version will work better as 8.0.44.

[Anonymous]

Version 8.0.53 is out !

[Andriy Golovnya]

I'll check it out. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Apparently Cuda version 8.0.55 solves MAC OS Sierra warnings !

https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads

[Andriy Golovnya]

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Version 8.0.63 is out !

[Alexander Stohr]

i checked those number and found it mainly mentioned for MacOS X.
when going for the download page and checking the final offer for some variants of Linux/Windows/Mac then there are only all the versions known since about last year.
sorry for now.

[Anonymous]

Do you mean this ?
http://www.nvidia.com/object/mac-driver-archive.html

[Anonymous]

CUDA Toolkit 8.0.61 is out for all OS's...

[Anonymous]

Does this mean improvement ?
p/cuda-z/code - Revision 272: /trunk