Installing CUDA Samples

EDIT 2022: Before you start make sure you sync the cuda samples version that correspond to your cuda installation version. You can check the relevant tags:

• https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-samples/tags

Sync or download the cuda samples repo from nvidia’s official github

git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-samples.git
cd cuda-samples/

Then build the samples. Be sure to specify number of threads because the samples takes quite some time to build.

make -j$(grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo)

If you get this error

#error -- unsupported GNU version! gcc versions later than 7 are not supported!

You need to install the appropriate gcc version, as if this writing it’s version 7

sudo apt install gcc-7 g++-7
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-7 /usr/local/cuda/bin/gcc
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/g++-7 /usr/local/cuda/bin/g++

Then rebuild it and should be fine!

You can test some samples, one of the most useful is the bandwidth test

cd Samples/bandwidthTest
./bandwidthTest

You should get an output like this:

[CUDA Bandwidth Test] - Starting...
Running on...

 Device 0: GeForce MX150
 Quick Mode

 Host to Device Bandwidth, 1 Device(s)
 PINNED Memory Transfers
   Transfer Size (Bytes)	Bandwidth(GB/s)
   32000000			2.6

 Device to Host Bandwidth, 1 Device(s)
 PINNED Memory Transfers
   Transfer Size (Bytes)	Bandwidth(GB/s)
   32000000			2.6

 Device to Device Bandwidth, 1 Device(s)
 PINNED Memory Transfers
   Transfer Size (Bytes)	Bandwidth(GB/s)
   32000000			29.1

Result = PASS

NOTE: The CUDA Samples are not meant for performance measurements. Results may vary when GPU Boost is enabled.