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Nvidia Nsight Installation Failed

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I have a Windows 7 (64bits) OS with Visual Studio 2008 with SP1. After starting  Parallel_Nsight_Host_Win64_1.0.10200 (Jul 2010) I got the following error message: “ The required version of Visual Studio (2008 SP1) was not detected ” – see screen capture: I guess the problem is in the system registry of VS2008 which partly located  as a 32bit system and partly as a 64bit system and Nsight didn’t find what it expected.  SP1 seems to be installed as can be seen in the image below:   It turned out that although SP1 is installed, it was not installed correctly. After trying to reinstall SP1 I got the following error message: I checked the log file:   Exe (C:\Users\telzur\AppData\Local\Temp\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1\VC_x86Runtime.exe) succeeded. [8/6/2010, 18:34:11] (IronSpigot::ExeInstallerBase::PerformAction) Log File: dd_VC_x86RuntimeMSI18CE.txt [8/6/2010, 18:34:11] (IronSpigot::ExeInstallerBase::PerformAction) Log File: dd_VC_x86RuntimeUI18CE.tx...

Teaching CUDA/OpenCL in my course

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Starting from Semester 2010B I am going to incorporate CUDA/OpenCL Programming for GPGPUs as a chapter in my Introduction to Parallel Processing course ( link to 2010A course ).