Profilers / Debuggers / Code Analysis

Aug 09, 2023
Speed Up GPU Crash Debugging with NVIDIA Nsight Aftermath
NVIDIA Nsight Developer Tools provide comprehensive access to NVIDIA GPUs and graphics APIs for performance analysis, optimization, and debugging activities....
5 MIN READ

Jul 06, 2023
NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 12.2 Unleashes Powerful Features for Boosting Applications
The latest release of NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 12.2 introduces a range of essential new features, modifications to the programming model, and enhanced support for...
8 MIN READ

Jun 29, 2023
Debugging CUDA More Efficiently with NVIDIA Compute Sanitizer
Debugging code is a crucial aspect of software development but can be both challenging and time-consuming. Parallel programming with thousands of threads can...
13 MIN READ

Jun 28, 2023
Optimizing CUDA Memory Transfers with NVIDIA Nsight Systems
NVIDIA Nsight Systems is a comprehensive tool for tracking application performance across CPU and GPU resources. It helps ensure that hardware is being...
10 MIN READ

Jun 28, 2023
Improving GPU Performance by Reducing Instruction Cache Misses
GPUs are specially designed to crunch through massive amounts of data at high speed. They have a large amount of compute resources, called streaming...
11 MIN READ

May 31, 2022
Improve Guidance and Performance Visualization with the New Nsight Compute
NVIDIA Nsight Compute is an interactive kernel profiler for CUDA applications. It provides detailed performance metrics and API debugging through a user...
3 MIN READ

Mar 24, 2022
Record, Edit, and Rewind in Virtual Reality with NVIDIA VR Capture and Replay
Developers and early access users can now accurately capture and replay VR sessions for performance testing, scene troubleshooting, and more with NVIDIA Virtual...
5 MIN READ

Jan 25, 2022
NVIDIA Nsight Systems 2022.1 Introduces Vulkan 1.3 and Linux Backtrace Sampling and Profiling Improvements
The latest update to NVIDIA Nsight Systems—a performance analysis tool designed to help developers tune and scale software across CPUs and GPUs—is now...
2 MIN READ

Jan 25, 2022
NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2022.1 Supports Latest Vulkan Ray Tracing Extension
Today, NVIDIA announced the latest Nsight Graphics 2022.1, which supports Direct3D (11, 12, DXR), Vulkan 1.3 ray tracing extension, OpenGL, OpenVR, and the...
3 MIN READ

Feb 12, 2021
Boosting Productivity and Performance with the NVIDIA CUDA 11.2 C++ Compiler
The 11.2 CUDA C++ compiler incorporates features and enhancements aimed at improving developer productivity and the performance of GPU-accelerated applications....
21 MIN READ

Aug 02, 2019
Transitioning to Nsight Systems from NVIDIA Visual Profiler / nvprof
The Nsight suite of profiling tools now supersedes the NVIDIA Visual Profiler (NVVP) and nvprof. Let’s look at what this means for NVIDIA Visual Profiler or...
17 MIN READ

Jul 15, 2019
Migrating to NVIDIA Nsight Tools from NVVP and Nvprof
If you use the NVIDIA Visual Profiler or the nvprof command line tool, it’s time to transition to something newer: NVIDIA Nsight Tools. Don’t worry! The new...
10 MIN READ

Nov 16, 2017
Pro Tip: Pinpointing Runtime Errors in CUDA Fortran
CUDA Fortran for Scientists and Engineers shows how high-performance application developers can...
4 MIN READ

Mar 19, 2017
CUDA Development for Jetson with NVIDIA Nsight Eclipse Edition
NVIDIA Nsight Eclipse Edition is a...
14 MIN READ

Mar 07, 2016
Deep Learning in a Nutshell: Sequence Learning
This series of blog posts aims to provide an intuitive and gentle introduction to deep learning that does not rely heavily on math or theoretical...
13 MIN READ

Sep 04, 2014
CUDA Pro Tip: Always Set the Current Device to Avoid Multithreading Bugs
We often say that to reach high performance on GPUs you should expose as much parallelism in your code as possible, and we don't mean just parallelism...
3 MIN READ