Version 14.0.0
June 2014
This file contains important information about the LabVIEW 2014 GPU Analysis Toolkit, including installation instructions, a partial list of bugs fixed for the GPU Analysis Toolkit 2014, and known issues.
Product Security and Critical Updates
Automating the Installation of NI Products
How to Use NI Software with Microsoft Windows 8.x
NI Software Support for Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003
The LabVIEW GPU Analysis Toolkit provides VIs for offloading FFT and BLAS operations to a graphics processing unit (GPU) device. This functionality is useful in applications with computationally challenging problems. A GPU can compute large problems while the CPU continues to function as the primary processor. If you have a GPU device installed and it is accessible from the host processor, the GPU Analysis Toolkit allows you to manage the device and its resources from LabVIEW.
In addition to the system requirements for the LabVIEW Development System, the GPU Analysis Toolkit has the following requirements:
Note This requirement does not include the disk space you need for the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit.
Refer to the LabVIEW Readme for additional system requirements and supported operating systems for LabVIEW 2014.
Double-click the setup.exe file in the root directory of the LabVIEW GPU Analysis Toolkit installer and follow the instructions on the screen to install the GPU Analysis Toolkit.
Note To install the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit, go to the CUDA Downloads page of the NVIDIA website. Install the 32-bit or 64-bit version of the CUDA Toolkit that corresponds to the host computer operating system. The computer also must have a version of the NVIDIA display driver released after June 2010. If Windows Update is enabled, the computer likely has a version of NVIDIA display driver that works with the CUDA Toolkit version 4.0. You can find and download supported display driver installers on the same page where you download the CUDA Toolkit.
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You can access the software and documentation known issues list online. Refer to the National Instruments website for an up-to-date list of known issues in the GPU Analysis Toolkit.
The following items are the IDs and titles of a subset of issues fixed in the GPU Analysis Toolkit. This is not an exhaustive list of issues fixed in the current version of the GPU Analysis Toolkit. If you have a CAR ID, you can search this list to validate that the issue has been fixed.
| ID | Fixed Issue |
|---|---|
| 415193 | The CLN in STRSM (cublasStrsm).vi is not configured properly and causes crashes in 32-bit LV |
| 433466 | Complex FFT (CDB, CDB).vi incorrectly calls Complex FFT (Set Context - cufftExecC2C).vi instead of Complex FFT (Set Context - cufftExecZ2Z).vi |
Refer to the LabVIEW Help, accessible from Help»LabVIEW Help in LabVIEW, for information about the GPU Analysis Toolkit.
Select Help»Find Examples from LabVIEW to launch the NI Example Finder. Navigate to the Toolkits and Modules»GPU Analysis folder to access the examples. You can modify an example VI to fit an application, or you can copy and paste from one or more examples into a VI that you create.
You also can find the examples for the GPU Analysis Toolkit in the labview\examples\lvgpu directory.
You can automate the installation of most NI products using command-line arguments to suppress some or all of the installer user interface and dialog boxes. However, starting with the August 2012 releases (products using NI Installers version 3.1 or later), you may need to perform additional steps before or during a silent installation of NI software.
If the NI product you are installing uses Microsoft .NET 4.0, the .NET installer may run before any NI software installs and may require a reboot before the installation of NI software begins. To avoid a .NET reboot, install .NET 4.0 separately before you install NI software.
For more information about automating the installation of NI products, refer to the following KnowledgeBase articles:
When you install National Instruments software on Microsoft Windows 8.x, you will notice a few additional tiles in the Apps view, including shortcuts to NI application software products such as NI LabVIEW, Measurement & Automation Explorer (NI MAX), and NI Launcher.
NI Launcher helps you find and launch installed NI products. It provides you with a method of finding NI products similar to the Start menu in previous versions of Microsoft Windows. To use NI Launcher, click the NI Launcher tile in the Apps view. NI Launcher launches the desktop and opens a menu containing a list of NI products. Click any NI product to launch it.
| Note NI MAX does not appear as a desktop shortcut when installed on Microsoft Windows 8.x. You can launch NI MAX either from the Apps view or from within NI Launcher. |
For convenience, you can pin your most-used NI applications, such as MAX, to either the Start screen or the Taskbar on the desktop, as necessary:
| Current Application | Icon Location | Pin to Action |
| Windows 8.x Desktop | Desktop Taskbar | Right-click application and select Pin to Taskbar |
| Windows 8.x Desktop | Start screen | Right-click application and select Pin to Start |
| Windows 8.x Start screen | Desktop Taskbar | Right-click application and select Pin to taskbar from the menu bar on the bottom of the screen |
If you want to find a particular application or related files, such as documentation files, from the Start screen, you can access all installed files from the Apps view. To get to the Apps view, right-click anywhere on the Start screen and select All apps (Windows 8) or click the down arrow on the bottom left of the screen (Windows 8.1).
For more information about NI support for Windows 8.x, visit ni.com/windows8.
National Instruments LabVIEW GPU Analysis Toolkit will drop support for Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 as of July 1, 2016. Versions of the GPU Analysis Toolkit that ship after July 1, 2016 will not install or run on Windows Vista, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003. For detailed information about NI application software product life cycles, visit ni.com/info and enter one of the following Info Codes:
| Product | Info Code |
| NI LabVIEW | lifecycle |
| NI LabWindows™/CVI™ | cvi_lifecycle |
| NI Measurement Studio | mstudiolifecycle |
| NI TestStand | tslcp |
| NI DIAdem | ddlcp |
| NI SignalExpress | selcp |
| NI VeriStand | nivslifecycle |
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