LabVIEW 2012 GPU Analysis Toolkit Readme

Version 12.0


June 2012


This file contains important information about the LabVIEW 2012 GPU Analysis Toolkit, including installation instructions, help resources, and known issues.


Overview

System Requirements

Installation Instructions

Known Issues

Accessing the Help

Finding Examples

Automating the Installation of NI Products

Overview

The LabVIEW GPU Analysis Toolkit is a LabVIEW add-on that provides VIs for offloading FFT and BLAS operations to a GPU device. This functionality is useful in applications with computationally challenging problems. A graphics processing unit (GPU) can compute large problems while the CPU continues to function as the primary processor. If you have a GPU device installed and it is accessible from the host processor, the GPU Analysis Toolkit allows you to manage the device and its resources from LabVIEW.


System Requirements

In addition to the system requirements for the LabVIEW Development System, the GPU Analysis Toolkit has the following requirements:

  • LabVIEW 2012 Full or Professional Development System (32-bit or 64-bit)
  • At least 30 MB of disk space for the toolkit and at least 60 MB of disk space for the installer
      Note  This requirement does not include the disk space you need for the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit.
  • NVIDIA GPU device
  • NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit version 4.0 or later
  • NVIDIA display driver

Refer to the LabVIEW Readme file in the labview directory for additional system requirements and supported operating systems for LabVIEW 2012.


Installation Instructions

You can install the LabVIEW GPU Analysis Toolkit by downloading and running the LabVIEW GPU Analysis Toolkit installer. Double-click the setup.exe file in the root directory of the LabVIEW GPU Analysis Toolkit installer and follow the instructions on the screen to install this product.


Note: To install the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit, go to the CUDA Downloads page of the NVIDIA website. Install the 32-bit or 64-bit version of the CUDA Toolkit that corresponds to the host computer operating system. The computer also must have a version of the NVIDIA display driver released after June 2010. If Windows Update is enabled, the computer likely has a version of an NVIDIA display driver that works with the CUDA Toolkit version 4.0. You can find and download supported display driver installers on the same page where you download the CUDA Toolkit.

Known Issues

You can access the software and documentation known issues list online. Refer to the National Instruments website for an up-to-date list of known issues in the LabVIEW GPU Analysis Toolkit.


Accessing the Help

Refer to the Toolkits»GPU Analysis Toolkit book on the Contents tab of the LabVIEW Help for more information about the GPU Analysis Toolkit.


Finding Examples

LabVIEW examples for the GPU Analysis Toolkit are located in the labview\examples\lvgpu folder. You can modify an example VI to fit an application, or you can copy and paste from one or more examples into a VI that you create.


Automating the Installation of NI Products

You can automate the installation of most NI products using command-line arguments to suppress some or all of the installer user interface and dialog boxes. However, starting with the August 2012 releases (products using NI Installers version 3.1 or later), you may need to perform additional steps before or during a silent installation of NI software.


If the NI product you are installing uses Microsoft .NET 4.0, the .NET installer may run before any NI software installs and may require a reboot before the installation of NI software begins. To avoid a .NET reboot, install .NET 4.0 separately before you install NI software.


For more information, refer to the following KnowledgeBase articles:


Important Information

Copyright


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Patents


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