GPU 显卡 CUDA
显卡: 主机向显示器发出的显示信号转化为一般电气信号,使得显示器能明白个人计算机在让它做什么
- GPU: Graphics Processing Unit, 图形处理器, 是显卡的主要处理单元.
NVIDIA CUDA
The NVIDIA® CUDA® Toolkit provides a comprehensive development environment for C and C++ developers building GPU-accelerated applications. With the CUDA Toolkit, you can develop, optimize, and deploy your applications on GPU-accelerated embedded systems, desktop workstations, enterprise data centers, cloud-based platforms and HPC supercomputers. The toolkit includes GPU-accelerated libraries, debugging and optimization tools, a C/C++ compiler, and a runtime library to deploy your application.
通常,安装CUDA Toolkit时会默认安装CUDA driver;但是我们经常只装CUDA driver,没有安装CUDA Toolkit,因为有时不一定用到CUDA Toolkit,比如我们的笔记本电脑,安装CUDA driver 就可以看视频、办公了.