cuda sdk 3.1 why make it so LARGE

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Programming and Performance
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more than 1 GB space required!!!

basically it is the multiple copies of cudpp library. Does anyone know why is that? for example, in the common/lib/linux, there are like gcc346, gcc41

thanks

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Holy cow - you’re right! du -sh in the C/common/lib/linux directory reports 1.3GB! all for cudpp libraries! Wouldn’t it make sense to just include the cudpp source if it must be a dependency and compile as necessary?

libcudpp_x86_64D.a in the gcc441 directory is almost 300MB by itself!

What SDK examples use cuddpp? I count only 4 - ParticleSystem, radixSort, marchingCubes and lineOfSight. That seems like an awful lot of space to support those four examples! Especially since it looks like the only functions that are actually used from cudpp are scan and sort - just use thrust!!!

I realize we all have big hard drives these days - but this does seem really unnecessary.

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Holy cow - you’re right! du -sh in the C/common/lib/linux directory reports 1.3GB! all for cudpp libraries! Wouldn’t it make sense to just include the cudpp source if it must be a dependency and compile as necessary?

libcudpp_x86_64D.a in the gcc441 directory is almost 300MB by itself!

What SDK examples use cuddpp? I count only 4 - ParticleSystem, radixSort, marchingCubes and lineOfSight. That seems like an awful lot of space to support those four examples! Especially since it looks like the only functions that are actually used from cudpp are scan and sort - just use thrust!!!

I realize we all have big hard drives these days - but this does seem really unnecessary.

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Holy cow is approximately the right reaction. Will be fixed in the next release.

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Holy cow is approximately the right reaction. Will be fixed in the next release.

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Good to hear.

May I ask when the next release is scheduled, and if the next release’s toolkit will support Ubuntu 10.04 out of the box, without requiring any fiddling?

Cheers,

peter

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Good to hear.

May I ask when the next release is scheduled, and if the next release’s toolkit will support Ubuntu 10.04 out of the box, without requiring any fiddling?

Cheers,

peter