[Campaign-news] Meeting Notes

[Kai Kohlhoff]

Hi Bill,

I don't think anyone has tried NSIGHT here, but the profiler is used regularly and has proven very useful.

- Kai



On May 4, 2010, at 1:28 AM, whsu at sfsu.edu wrote:

> Ah well. Have you guys had any experiences with it at Stanford?
> 
> Bill
> 
> Quoting Kai Kohlhoff <kohlhoff at stanford.edu>:
> 
>> Hi Bill,
>> 
>> Yes, it was NSIGHT that I mentioned to you.  You are right, it's  only for Visual Studio and it requires two PCs to use it for  on-the-GPU debugging.  Otherwise the CUDA profiler is probably the  most helpful tool.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Kai
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On May 2, 2010, at 1:27 AM, whsu at sfsu.edu wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Marc,
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the updates!
>>> 
>>> I'm gone till June 4; will have to miss this one, sorry.
>>> 
>>> Kai, I remembered briefly you showing me a new NVIDIA performance
>>> monitoring application. Was it Parallel NSIGHT? It seems to be
>>> just for Visual Studio, unfortunately.
>>> 
>>> Bill
>>> 
>>> Quoting Marc Sosnick <marcsosnick at mac.com>:
>>> 
>>>> Kai, Bill:
>>>> 
>>>> Here are the notes from the telephone conversation today with Kai and me:
>>>> 
>>>> We're shooting for a prerelease date before the 21st of May.
>>>> 
>>>> Kai and Marc are to meet at Stanford May 5, 2010 at 1 PM.  Location
>>>> TBD.  Bill still away?
>>>> 
>>>> As much as possible of the following to be done before meeting:
>>>> 
>>>> * Marc to refactor current code  into .cpp, .cu, .h form, with eye to
>>>> standardizing API and librarying
>>>> * Marc to continue work on dataIO object - break into parser, add
>>>> ability to choose device
>>>> * Marc to delete kcentersGPU1D
>>>> * Kai to commit more methods
>>>> * Kai to complete heiracrchicalGPU method
>>>> * Kai to look into why kmeansCPU not passing tests
>>>> * Kai to provide sample license header, Marc to tack onto all files
>>>> * Kai to send text about clustering methods, Marc to format for doxygen
>>>> 
>>>> Other issues to be resolved before prerelease:
>>>> * Smoketest to be changed to GPU / CPU sanity check for release -
>>>> checks to see that CPU data = GPU data
>>>> * Metrics directory?
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>> -----------------------------------------------------
>> Kai Kohlhoff, PhD
>> Stanford University
>> School of Medicine, Bioengineering
>> Stanford, CA 94305-5448, USA
>> T: ++1 (650) 724 1575
>> E: kohlhoff at stanford.edu
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 

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Kai Kohlhoff, PhD
Stanford University
School of Medicine, Bioengineering
Stanford, CA 94305-5448, USA
T: ++1 (650) 724 1575
E: kohlhoff at stanford.edu

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