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alea.cuBase and CUBLAS

I'm starting down the exciting road of GPU programming, and if I'm going to do some heavyweight number-crunching, I'd like to use the best libraries that are out there. I would especially like to use cuBLAS from an F# environment. CUDAfy offers the full set of drivers from their solution, and I have also been looking at Alea.cuBase, which has thrown up a few questions.

The Alea.cuSamples project on GitHub makes a cryptic reference to an Examples solution: "For more advanced test, please go to the MatrixMul projects in the Examples solution." However, I can't find any trace of these mysterious projects.

  1. Does anyone know the location of the elusive "MatrixMul projects in the Examples solution"?
  2. Given that cuSamples performs a straightfoward matrix multiplication, would the more advanced version, wherever it lives, use cuBLAS?
  3. If not, is there a way to access cuBLAS from Alea.cuBase a la CUDAfy?
Solution

  • The matrixMulCUBLAS project is a C++ project that ships with the CUDA SDK, https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads. This uses cuBLAS to get astonishingly quick matrix multiplication (139 GFlops) on my home laptop.