Cuda For Mac Nvidia

20-04-2021
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NVIDIA® CUDA Toolkit 11.1 Update 1 no longer supports development or running applications on macOS. While there are no tools which use macOS as a target environment, NVIDIA is making macOS host versions of these tools that you can launch profiling and debugging sessions on supported target platforms.

  1. Note: Quadro FX for Mac or GeForce for Mac must be installed prior to CUDA 7.5.22 installation. Double-click on CUDADriver-7.5.22-macos.dmg; Click Continue on the CUDA 7.5 Installer Welcome screen; Click Continue after you read the License Agreement and then click Agree; Click Install on.
  2. Mac OS X support was later added in version 2.0, which supersedes the beta released February 14, 2008. CUDA works with all Nvidia GPUs from the G8x series onwards, including GeForce, Quadro and the Tesla line. CUDA is compatible with most standard operating systems. Nvidia states that programs developed for the G8x series will also work without.

For CUDA developers who are on macOS 10.13, it is recommended to not upgrade to Mojave. Developers may not be able to use Xcode 10 to build GPU applications or run CUDA applications. Both macOS 10.13.6 and Xcode 9.4 support CUDA and work great with CUDA 10. NVIDIA is working with Apple to get Mojave to support CUDA. The last vestiges of Nvidia and Apple’s long- term relationship are ending shortly. On Monday Nvidia published the release notes for the next update of its CUDA platform and noted that “CUDA 10.2. Note: Quadro FX for Mac or GeForce for Mac must be installed prior to CUDA Driver 418.163 installation. Double-click on cudadriver418.163macos.dmg; Click Continue on the Installer Welcome screen; Click Continue after you read the License Agreement and then click Agree; Click Install on.

You may download all these tools here. Note that the Nsight tools provide the ability to download these macOS host versions on their respective product pages.

Please visit each tool's overview page for more information about the tool and its supported target platforms.

The macOS host tools provided are:

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  • Nsight Systems - a system profiler and timeline trace tool supporting Pascal and newer GPUs
  • Nsight Compute - a CUDA kernel profiler supporting Volta and new GPUs
  • Visual Profiler - a CUDA kernel and system profiler and timeline trace tool supporting older GPUs (see installation instructions, below)
  • cuda-gdb - a GPU and CPU CUDA application debugger (see installation instructions, below)

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Instructions for installing cuda-gdb on the macOS

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    This tar archive holds the distribution of the CUDA 11.1 Update 1 cuda-gdb cuda-gdb debugger front-end for macOS.
    Native macOS debugging is not supported in this release. Remote debugging from a macOS host to other CUDA enabled targets, however, is supported.
    Supported Mac platforms: macOS 10.13
    To install:
    1. Create an installation directory
        INSTALL_DIR=$HOME/cuda-gdb-darwin-11.1
        mkdir $INSTALL_DIR
        cd $INSTALL_DIR
    2. Download the cuda-gdb-darwin-11.1.105.tar.gz tar archive into $INSTALL_DIR above
    3. Unpack the tar archive
        tar fxvz cuda-gdb-darwin-11.1.105.tar.gz
    4. Add the bin directory to your path
        PATH=$INSTALL_DIR/bin:$PATH
    5. Run cuda-gdb --version to confirm you're picking up the correct binaries
        cuda-gdb --version

      6. Get microsoft office mac. You should see the following output: Browser update for mac.

        NVIDIA (R) CUDA Debugger
        11.1 release
        Portions Copyright (C) 2007-2020 NVIDIA Corporation
        GNU gdb (GDB) 8.3.1
        Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
        License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
          Steps to run:
          1. Open terminal.
          2. Change to the bin folder
              > cd <nvvp_mac>/nvvp/bin
          3. Run nvvp script file in command line
              > ./nvvp -vm <path_to_java>
            <path_to_java> should point to the JRE update 151 version of Java (See Notes about JRE Requirements, below).
              For example:
              > ./nvvp -vm /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/zulu-8.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/bin/java
          Summary of supported features:
          1. Remote profiling
          2. Import nvprof output files
          Refer the 'Visual Profiler' section in the 'Profiler User's Guide'
          for more information:
            https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/profiler-users-guide/index.html#visual

        Notes about JRE Requirements when using Visual Profiler on the macOS

          OpenJDK provides an open-source (and standards compliant) implementation of a Java compliant JVM.
          Binaries are provided by various vendors such as Oracle, Azul Systems (Zulu), Amazon, Red Hat, IBM, etc.
          Visual Profiler needs to use an older version of Java, specifically JRE update 151, to work correctly.
          This is currently not offered by Oracle JDK but is provided by Azul Systems (Zulu).
          The Bazel Build project also uses the Zulu builds of OpenJDK.
          Download JDK 8.0.144 to get JRE update 151:
            • Download version: 8u144-b01 (Zulu: 8.23.0.3) .dmg.zip.tar.gz
            • Download version: Zulu 8.23.0.3 (build 1.8.0_144-b01 .zip

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