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CUDA Context Thread Management For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

Simple program illustrating how to the CUDA Context Management API. CUDA contexts can be created separately and attached independently to different threads.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Simple Vote Intrinsics For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

Simple program which demonstrates how to use the Vote (any, all) intrinsic instruction in a CUDA kernel. Requires Compute Capability 1.2 or higher.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Simple D3D9 Texture For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

Simple program which demonstrates Direct3D9 texture interoperability with CUDA. The program creates a number of D3D9 textures (2D, 3D, and CubeMap) which are written to from CUDA kernels. Direct3D then renders the results on the screen.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Simple Atomic Intrinsics For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

A simple demonstration of global memory atomic instructions. Requires Compute Capability 1.1 or higher.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Separable Convolution For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

This sample implements a separable convolution filter of a 2D signal with a gaussian kernel.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Texture-based Separable Convolution For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

Texture-based implementation of a separable 2D convolution with a gaussian kernel. Used for performance comparison against convolutionSeparable. 		  Minimum Required GPU
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Black-Scholes Option Pricing For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

This sample evaluates fair call and put prices for a given set of European options by Black-Scholes formula.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Bitonic Sort For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

Bitonic sort is a very simple parallel sorting algorithm that is very efficient when sorting a small number of elements: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/blelloch98experimental.html This implementation is based on: http://www.tools-of-computing.com/tc/CS/Sorts/bitonic_sort.htm 		  Minimum Required GPU
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Scalar Product For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

This sample calculates scalar products of a given set of input vector pairs.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Clock For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

This example shows how to use the clock function to measure the performance of kernel accurately.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Simple multi-GPU For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

This application demonstrates how to use the CUDA API to use multiple GPUs. 		  Minimum Required GPU
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Aligned Types For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

A simple test, showing huge access speed gap between aligned and misaligned structures.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Bicubic Texture Filtering For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

This sample demonstrates how to efficiently implement bicubic texture filtering in CUDA.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Volume rendering For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

This sample demonstrates basic volume rendering using 3D textures.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Simple Texture 3D For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

Simple example that demonstrates use of 3D textures in CUDA.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Simple Direct3D For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

Simple program which demonstrates interoperability between CUDA and Direct3D9. The program modifies vertex positions with CUDA and uses Direct3D9 to render the geometry.		   Minimum Required GPU
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asyncAPI For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

This sample uses CUDA streams and events to overlap execution on CPU and GPU.		   Minimum Required GPU
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cudaOpenMP For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

This sample shows how to use OpenMP API to write an application for multiple GPUs.		   Minimum Required GPU
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simpleStreams For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

This sample uses CUDA streams to overlap kernel executions with memcopies between the device and the host. Requires Compute Capability 1.1 or higher.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Device Query For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

This sample enumerates the properties of the CUDA devices present in the system.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Simple Templates For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

This sample is a templatized version of the template project. It also shows how to correctly templatize dynamically allocated shared memory arrays.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Bandwidth Test For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

This is a simple test program to measure the memcopy bandwidth of the GPU. It currently is capable of measuring device to device copy bandwidth, host to device copy bandwidth for pageable and page-locked memory, and device to host copy bandwidth for pageable and page-locked memory.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Simple Texture (Driver Version) For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

Simple example that demonstrates use of textures in CUDA using the driver API.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Simple Texture For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

Simple example that demonstrates use of textures in CUDA.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Matrix Multiplication (Driver Version) For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

This sample implements matrix multiplication using the CUDA driver API. It has been written for clarity of exposition to illustrate various CUDA programming principles, not with the goal of providing the most performant generic kernel for matrix multiplication. CUBLAS provides high-performance matrix multiplication.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Template For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

A trivial template project that can be used as a starting point to create new CUDA projects.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Simple CUFFT For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

Example of using CUFFT. In this example, CUFFT is used to compute the 1D-convolution of some signal with some filter by transforming both into frequency domain, multiplying them together, and transforming the signal back to time domain.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Simple OpenGL For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

Simple program which demonstrates interoperability between CUDA and OpenGL. The program modifies vertex positions with CUDA and uses OpenGL to render the geometry.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Simple CUBLAS For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

Example of using CUBLAS.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Matrix Multiplication For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

This sample implements matrix multiplication and is exactly the same as Chapter 6 of the programming guide. It has been written for clarity of exposition to illustrate various CUDA programming principles, not with the goal of providing the most performant generic kernel for matrix multiplication. CUBLAS provides high-performance matrix multiplication.		   Minimum Required GPU
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C++ Integration For a direct link to this sample, right-click and copy the URL (shortcut) of this link icon.

This example demonstrates how to integrate CUDA into an existing C++ application, i.e. the CUDA entry point on host side is only a function which is called from C++ code and only the file containing this function is compiled with nvcc. It also demonstrates that vector types can be used from cpp.		   Minimum Required GPU
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Last Update: 06/15/2009