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Minimal CUDA example (with helpful comments).
#include <stdio.h>
//
// Nearly minimal CUDA example.
// Compile with:
//
// nvcc -o example example.cu
//
#define N 1000
//
// A function marked __global__
// runs on the GPU but can be called from
// the CPU.
//
// This function multiplies the elements of an array
// of ints by 2.
//
// The entire computation can be thought of as running
// with one thread per array element with blockIdx.x
// identifying the thread.
//
// The comparison i<N is because often it isn't convenient
// to have an exact 1-1 correspondence between threads
// and array elements. Not strictly necessary here.
//
// Note how we're mixing GPU and CPU code in the same source
// file. An alternative way to use CUDA is to keep
// C/C++ code separate from CUDA code and dynamically
// compile and load the CUDA code at runtime, a little
// like how you compile and load OpenGL shaders from
// C/C++ code.
//
__global__
void add(int *a, int *b) {
int i = blockIdx.x;
if (i<N) {
b[i] = 2*a[i];
}
}
int main() {
//
// Create int arrays on the CPU.
// ('h' stands for "host".)
//
int ha[N], hb[N];
//
// Create corresponding int arrays on the GPU.
// ('d' stands for "device".)
//
int *da, *db;
cudaMalloc((void **)&da, N*sizeof(int));
cudaMalloc((void **)&db, N*sizeof(int));
//
// Initialise the input data on the CPU.
//
for (int i = 0; i<N; ++i) {
ha[i] = i;
}
//
// Copy input data to array on GPU.
//
cudaMemcpy(da, ha, N*sizeof(int), cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
//
// Launch GPU code with N threads, one per
// array element.
//
add<<<N, 1>>>(da, db);
//
// Copy output array from GPU back to CPU.
//
cudaMemcpy(hb, db, N*sizeof(int), cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);
for (int i = 0; i<N; ++i) {
printf("%d\n", hb[i]);
}
//
// Free up the arrays on the GPU.
//
cudaFree(da);
cudaFree(db);
return 0;
}
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dpiponi commented Sep 25, 2023

FWIW I just tried following my own instructions with CUDA 11.4 running on WSL 2/Ubuntu and it worked. (Compiling with /usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc.)

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Thank you so much for this; truly helped a lot with my homework.

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