Month: July 2017

Notes, screenshots and results using, installing, testing Nvidia Cuda on Linuxmint 18.1

“CUDA is a parallel computing platform and programming model invented by NVIDIA. It enables dramatic increases in computing performance by harnessing the power of the graphics processing unit (GPU).“

References:

• Puget systems
• nVidia devtalk
• NVidia CUDA
• SimpleScreenRecorder – awesome! used to create the video below of nbody simulation

Additional Notes:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorder

 

Tests done on my custom built Workstation PC as well as Alienware 17 laptop – all GPU specs below.

Quick comparisons [not the focus of this post]  :):

• Puget systems laptop, with a GTX 980M 8Gb  – 91 billion int./sec, 1819 Gflops
• My Alienware 17 with a GTX 860M 2Gb – 43.3 b.i.p.s, 866 Gflops
• My workstation with a GTX 970 4Gb -> 146 b.i.p.s, 2919 GFlops.

Screenshots in no particular order.

 

Below result from Puget Systems test on their laptop, for comparison

Below my results