Profiling with the Visual Profiler?

Accelerated Computing CUDA CUDA Programming and Performance
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My Linux machine has Fedora 10 x64 installed. I don’t want to “pollute” it with a bunch of 32-bit support libraries.

CUDA 2.2 seems to include the Visual Profiler, but for some reason only a 32-bit version included in the 64-bit package. (Please nVidia make a 64-bit version available).

Is there a way to profile a CUDA kernel without the Visual Profiler? Having never used the Visual Profiler, I’m not really sure how it works.

Is there an environment variable or a compiler flag that can be set to dump profiling information out in a text format?

Thank you

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Sorry to be confusing, but I meant for the to be “Profiling without the Visual Profiler.”

If anyone can help out, please share.

Thanks

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You can setup the profiler just by setting some environment variables before running your program. See the documentation in /cuda_install_location/doc/CUDA_Profiler_2.2.txt