CUDA 2.3 Installation Help

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Hello everybody, I’m a new member and wishing CUDA user, I’m trying to install CUDA 2.3 on MAC OSX Snow Leopard.

I downloaded and installed, in this order:

CUDA Driver: CUDA Driver 2.3.1 for use with Quadro FX 4800 or GeForce GTX 285 on MacOS X 10.5.2 or later (pre-SnowLeopard), and any NVIDIA GPU on SnowLeopard → I have SnowLeopard so thought this was the best choice

CUDA Toolkit: CUDA Toolkit 2.3 for Mac OS

CUDA SDK: CUDA SDK 2.3 code samples for Mac OS

Visual Profiler: CUDA Visual Profiler v1.3 for Mac OS

But when installing Visual Profiler a message appears: “Unable to load the ‘/usr/local/cuda/lib/libcuda.dylib’ library. CUDA Visual Profiler device features will be disabled.”, where i can get it? Or what i have do to to make ev’thing running?

I also tried installation o Windows Xp running via VMware, but Visual profiler asked me for “nvcuda.dll”, i downloaded and put it in system32 and now appears “Cannot initialize CUDA”. What should I do know?

Thanks for reading, I hope somebody can help me.

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Hmm, i dont know whats going wrong. I dont have that problem.

Maybe its on order of install the parts (driver, SDK, Tools) problem ?

At least for the 3.0x Version:

[b]1) Install CUDA toolkit

  1. Install CUDA driver

  2. Install CUDA SDK[/b]

The reason for this is that, while in step 1, the following file is installed: “/usr/local/cuda/lib/libcuda.dylib”, step 2’s installer package simply overwrites any existing /usr/local/cuda/lib/ folder with its own, which doesn’t include libcuda.dylib.

You can also try to use the new 3.0beta driver/tools/sdk, which should be better for running in SL (64 Bit).

The 2.3 stable cant use Snow Leopard in 64 Bit Kernelmode.

NV CUDO 3.0 beta (win,linux, MAC OS X)

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=149959&st=0

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I didn’t understand: I have to install 2.3 or 3.0? and drivers has to be installed before or after toolkit?

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NO . First the toolkit, then the driver. Toolkit after driver overwites at least in 2.3 driver parts.

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I tried but nothing changed. I saw that development’s folder with lib folder and the others appear only when SDK is installed, not before

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Have you compiled the SDK? if not then once installed you need to open a terminal and navigate to /Developer/GPU Programs/C and use make

You might get this problem though… [url=“The Official NVIDIA Forums | NVIDIA”]The Official NVIDIA Forums | NVIDIA

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Are you sure that cuda 3.0 is 64 bit? I didn’t see any clear mention of that in the release notes. Can you confirm please?

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Im pretty sure it is. I was able to successfully install/verify the installation by running the sample programs provided in the SDK with 3.0 on my 13" MBP (mid 2010) w/ GeForce 320M. I am trying to downgrade to 2.3(since the emulator mode ain’t working so hot for me in 3.0) and am getting a wrong architecture error when trying to make the SDK files.