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@@ -61,14 +61,31 @@ See file CHANGES for updates in this and earlier versions. 2. INSTALLING, BUILDING and RUNNING GPGPU-Sim -GPGPU-Sim was developed on SUSE Linux(this release was tested with SUSE -version 11.3) and has been used on several other Linux platforms (both 32-bit -and 64-bit systems). In principle, GPGPU-Sim should work with any linux -distribution as long as the following software dependencies are satisfied. +Assuming all dependencies required by GPGPU-Sim are installed on your system, +to build GPGPU-Sim all you need to do is add the following line to your +~/.bashrc file (assuming the CUDA Toolkit was installed in /usr/local/cuda): + + export CUDA_INSTALL_PATH=/usr/local/cuda + +then type + + source ~/.bashrc + source setup_environment + make + +If the above fails, see "Step 1" and "Step 2" below. + +If the above worked, see "Step 3" below, which explains how to run a CUDA +benchmark on GPGPU-Sim. Step 1: Dependencies ==================== +GPGPU-Sim was developed on SUSE Linux (this release was tested with SUSE +version 11.3) and has been used on several other Linux platforms (both 32-bit +and 64-bit systems). In principle, GPGPU-Sim should work with any linux +distribution as long as the following software dependencies are satisfied. + Download and install the CUDA Toolkit. It is recommended to use version 3.1 for normal PTX simulation and version 4.0 for cuobjdump support and/or to use PTXPlus (Harware instruction set support). Note that it is possible to have @@ -126,6 +143,14 @@ python-matplotlib" CUDA SDK dependencies: "sudo apt-get install libxi-dev libxmu-dev libglut3-dev" +Finally, ensure CUDA_INSTALL_PATH is set to the location where you installed +the CUDA Toolkit (e.g., /usr/local/cuda) and that $CUDA_INSTALL_PATH/bin is in +your PATH. You probably want to modify your .bashrc file to incude the +following (this assumes the CUDA Toolkit was installed in /usr/local/cuda): + + export CUDA_INSTALL_PATH=/usr/local/cuda + export PATH=$CUDA_INSTALL_PATH/bin + Step 2: Build ============= @@ -138,7 +163,7 @@ source setup_environment <build_type> replace <build_type> with debug or release. Use release if you need faster simulation and debug if you need to run the simulator in gdb. If nothing is -specified, release will be used by default. +specified, release will be used by default. Now you are ready to build the simulator, just run |