The Compute Unified Device Architecture is nVidia’s architecture and API for using graphics processors as powerful parallel supercomputers on the cheap. Setting up the environment for developing with CUDA requires the installation of the CUDA driver, the CUDA toolkit, and the CUDA SDK. The following is the process for setting up this environment in Ubuntu 8.04.
This week Linux Journal magazine has been running a contest and the prize is a one year free subscription to the digital edition of their magazine.
All you have to do to enter is head over to Linux Journal and watch this week’s series of Tech Tip Videos (the ones marked “This is Tech Tip Video Contest Week (March 9 – 13) at LinuxJournal.com!”). Throughout those videos they sprinkled secret letters. You just have to find the secret letters over the course of the week and unscramble them to produce a linux related phrase. Once you have unscrambled the letters, head over to the contest submission form and submit it to win a free subscription.
Hurry! The contest ends at 11:59:59PM EDT, Friday, March 13 2009. That’s tonight!
Here’s the official contest announcement from Monday.
Here is a step by step walkthrough that I developed recently for setting up the Nagios NRPE plugin to monitor remote hosts. This setup was performed on a host running Ubuntu Server 8.04.1. This walkthrough is based on the official nagios documentation and will result in a NRPE plugin installed from source since the latest version of nagios and its plugins are not available in the Ubuntu 8.04 repositories.