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NVIDIA CUDA Visual Profiler 
Mac Release Notes
Version 1.0 Beta1
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FILES IN THE RELEASE:
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* CudaVisualProfiler/cudaprof.app/Contents/MacOS/cudaprof           : CUDA Visual Profiler Executable

* CudaVisualProfiler/cudaprof.app/Contents/Frameworks/Qt*.framework : Qt core shared libraries

* CudaVisualProfiler/cudaprof.app/Contents/plugins                  : Qt plugins

* CudaVisualProfiler/cudaprof.app/Contents/Resources/qt.conf        : Empty configuration file

* CudaVisualProfiler/projects                                       : Directory containing sample
                                                                      profiler projects


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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* CUDA compatible NVIDIA GPU Card
* NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit


INSTALLATION AND SETUP
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Extract all files from the release zip into a directory 
(referred to as <CudaVisualProfilerInstallDir>)

Check that the DYLD_LIBRARY PATH is set to include the CUDA toolkit lib directory:
 > export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda/lib


RUNNING THE CUDA Visual Profiler
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From Finder run 
   "<CudaVisualProfilerInstallDir>\CudaVisualProfiler\cudaprof.app"

From Terminal run
   "<CudaVisualProfilerInstallDir>\CudaVisualProfiler\cudaprof.app\Contents\MacOS\cudaprof"


Refer to the CUDA Visual Profiler readme for more information.


KNOWN ISSUES
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1) Note that timestamps and profiler counters are not working on the Mac platform. 
   If these options are selected an error is reported and no profiler output is available.