Creating a new project from a CUDA sample

CUDA samples showcase applying CUDA technology in miscellaneous scenarios and display approaches to improving CUDA application performance. Nsight, Eclipse Edition provides a way to create new projects using CUDA samples as a starting point.

CUDA samples must be installed to be usable by Nsight. Visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html to download CUDA samples package.

1. Click File > New > CUDA C/C++ Project.
2. The wizard will open as shown below. On the first wizard page select Import CUDA Sample under Executable and enter a new project name.
3. Press Next to open a list of project samples. If the list is empty, check path to samples at the top of this wizard page.
4. Click Next.
5. Use this wizard page to customize project build options. Note that some controls may be greyed out if project sample does not support those project settings (e.g. some projects require hardware features only available on devices with certain compute capability).
6. To create your project, click Finish.
7. In the Project Explorer you will see that the new project has been created.

Nsight copies the source files from sample install location into a new project folder. Changes made to the project sources will not be propagated back to the sample install location. Any number of projects created from the same CUDA sample can be present in the Nsight workspace at any time.

All Nsight, Eclipse Edition features, such as visual debugging and profiling can be used to familiarize the user with the CUDA sample code

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