Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2022
Chapter 10 describes the various tools available for both profiling kernel performance and debugging code.For profiling we discuss both the older CUDA nvprof command line profiler and associated NVVP GUI and the newer Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute profilers which have many options. In particular, Nsight Compute can give detail of the performance within an individual kernel which was not possible before. Our discussion of debugging is based on the tools in Microsoft Visual Studio both for conventional C++ debugging and to enhance CUDA plugins for kernel debugging. The CUDA (Next-Gen) toolset allows line by line monitoring of individual threads during kernel execution.
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