I am driving the Nvidia driver that came with Ubuntu. I figured it would be
more work installing the Nvidia driver from CUDA website and if problems
came up I would deal with them later. Good to know others are using it
without issues.

Thanks a lot!
Shwetank

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Minjae Kim
<[email protected]<the.minjae%[email protected]>
> wrote:

> I am glad it worked. :)
>
> By the way, for the record, are you using the CUDA website's Nvidia driver
> or the Ubuntu-bundled Nvidia driver?
> I am using the Ubuntu Nvidia driver one, as I had issues with the CUDA
> website's driver on Ubuntu 9.04.
>  After searching online, it seems that I am not the only one using the
> Ubuntu Nvidia driver for CUDA on 9.04.
>
> Best,
> Minjae
>
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Shwetank Kumar 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> works!!!! Thank you so much!
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Minjae Kim 
>> <[email protected]<the.minjae%[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Shwetank,
>>>
>>>
>>> So, after installing CUDA driver, install Boost and Numpy
>>>
>>> sudo apt-get install libboost-python1.35-dev python-numpy
>>>
>>> then PyCuda 0.93 can be downloaded from the PyCuda website.
>>> Extract it and go to its folder and type
>>>
>>> ./configure.py
>>>
>>> Then, edit "siteconf.py" file to following (assuming you are using
>>> default installation paths)
>>>
>>> BOOST_INC_DIR = ['/usr/include/boost/']
>>> BOOST_LIB_DIR = ['/usr/lib']
>>> BOOST_PYTHON_LIBNAME = ['boost_python-mt-py26']
>>> BOOST_THREAD_LIBNAME = ['boost_thread-gcc43-mt-1_35']
>>> CUDA_TRACE = False
>>> CUDADRV_LIB_DIR = []
>>> CUDADRV_LIBNAME = ['cuda']
>>> CXXFLAGS = []
>>> LDFLAGS = []
>>> CUDA_ROOT = '/usr/local/cuda/'
>>>
>>> then, the final step is
>>>
>>> python setup.py build
>>> sudo make install
>>>
>>> To test your installation,
>>> cd test
>>> python test_driver.py
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I hope that helps.  Feel free to let me know if that works (or not).
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Minjae
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Shwetank Kumar <[email protected]
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Minjae,
>>>>
>>>> I am new to Linux and have just started using Ubuntu 9.04. When I repeat
>>>> Andreas' instructions I am getting the following error when I run install:
>>>>
>>>> ctags -R src || true
>>>> /usr/bin/python setup.py install
>>>> running install
>>>> running bdist_egg
>>>> running egg_info
>>>> writing requirements to pycuda.egg-info/requires.txt
>>>> writing pycuda.egg-info/PKG-INFO
>>>> writing top-level names to pycuda.egg-info/top_level.txt
>>>> writing dependency_links to pycuda.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
>>>> reading manifest file 'pycuda.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
>>>> reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
>>>> writing manifest file 'pycuda.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
>>>> installing library code to build/bdist.linux-i686/egg
>>>> running install_lib
>>>> running build_py
>>>> creating build
>>>> creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.6
>>>> creating build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/pycuda
>>>> copying src/python/tools.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/pycuda
>>>> copying src/python/curandom.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/pycuda
>>>> copying src/python/gpuarray.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/pycuda
>>>> copying src/python/driver.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/pycuda
>>>> copying src/python/cumath.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/pycuda
>>>> copying src/python/autoinit.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/pycuda
>>>> copying src/python/rt.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/pycuda
>>>> copying src/python/elementwise.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/pycuda
>>>> copying src/python/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/pycuda
>>>> running build_ext
>>>> building '_driver' extension
>>>> creating build/temp.linux-i686-2.6
>>>> creating build/temp.linux-i686-2.6/src
>>>> creating build/temp.linux-i686-2.6/src/cpp
>>>> creating build/temp.linux-i686-2.6/src/wrapper
>>>> gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -Wall -O3 -DNDEBUG -fPIC
>>>> -Isrc/cpp -I/home/shwetank/pool/include/boost-1_35
>>>> -I/where/ever/you/installed/cuda/include
>>>> -I/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/numpy/core/include
>>>> -I/usr/include/python2.6 -c src/cpp/cuda.cpp -o
>>>> build/temp.linux-i686-2.6/src/cpp/cuda.o
>>>> gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory
>>>> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
>>>> make: *** [install] Error 1
>>>>
>>>> Could you please send the list of instructions you used to set up
>>>> pycuda?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Shwetank
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Raefer Gabriel <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> PyCUDA working on Ubuntu 9.04 here as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> Had to apt-get install the Boost 1.35 libraries (as I recall, something
>>>>> like
>>>>> "apt-get install libboost1.35-dev", not the basic libboost-dev package,
>>>>> which is still based on 1.34).
>>>>>
>>>>> And I had to switch to gcc-4.1 to build CUDA 2.1 (found instructions in
>>>>> CUDA
>>>>> forums).
>>>>>
>>>>> I wish I had documented the exact steps.  I don’t recall any other
>>>>> major
>>>>> issues though (there were definitely one or two other minor tweaks, but
>>>>> all
>>>>> easily solvable with the help of Google).
>>>>>
>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>>
>>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
>>>>> Behalf
>>>>> Of Minjae Kim
>>>>> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 2:15 PM
>>>>> To: Andreas Klöckner
>>>>> Cc: [email protected]
>>>>> Subject: Re: [PyCuda] Complete recipe for PyCUDA?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am using Ubuntu 9.04 and PyCuda 0.93.  I have no issues now.  I do
>>>>> have a
>>>>> (different) recipe for installing it on Ubuntu; if the one online does
>>>>> not
>>>>> work well, feel free to let me know.
>>>>>
>>>>> I myself moved away from MATLAB+Windows for research purposes.  Somehow
>>>>> I
>>>>> never could install PyCuda on Windows without Visual Studio 2003.
>>>>>  Ubuntu
>>>>> installation is smoother.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Minjae
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Andreas Klöckner <
>>>>> [email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>        On Freitag 08 Mai 2009, Andrew Wagner wrote:
>>>>>        > Hello-
>>>>>        >
>>>>>        > Is there a recipe out there for getting PyCUDA (including
>>>>>        > dependencies!) up and running that is known to just work?
>>>>>        >
>>>>>        > I'm hopeful that if I can get PyCUDA installed properly, it
>>>>> will
>>>>>        > become my primary research tool.  I used MATLAB exclusively
>>>>> for
>>>>> years
>>>>>        > and loved it.  Once that became impossible for performance
>>>>> reasons
>>>>> I
>>>>>        > switched to C++ and CUDA.  Now my code runs a lot faster, but
>>>>> I'm
>>>>> only
>>>>>        > about 1/20th as productive as I was with MATLAB.  Since I'm
>>>>> hoping
>>>>>        > this will be my primary research tool,  I'm willing to do a
>>>>> clean
>>>>>        > install of any OS (though I prefer anything but windows, and
>>>>> have
>>>>> a
>>>>>        > slight preference for mac or debian).
>>>>>        >
>>>>>        > Even if there is no well-tested recipe, I'd appreciate
>>>>> guidance on
>>>>>        > what platforms, package managers, library versions, etc... are
>>>>> best
>>>>>        > supported.  I already spent a couple days tinkering with this,
>>>>> and
>>>>> I
>>>>>        > plan to devote up to a week more, starting in about one week.
>>>>> I've
>>>>>        > been using cuda on OS X for about a semester, but I'm pretty
>>>>> new
>>>>> to
>>>>>        > python.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>        Using
>>>>>
>>>>>        http://documen.tician.de/pycuda/install.html
>>>>>
>>>>>        on Debian Lenny or Ubuntu 8.10 should "just work", as in, copy
>>>>> and
>>>>> paste the
>>>>>        commands, wait, and you're done. I use Debian myself.
>>>>>
>>>>>        On that note, any news with respect Ubuntu 9.04? Is that working
>>>>> ok
>>>>> now? Or
>>>>>        are there still issues?
>>>>>
>>>>>        Andreas
>>>>>
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