How to profile PyCuda code with the Visual Profiler?

Question

When I create a new session and tell the Visual Profiler to launch my python/pycuda scripts I get following error message: Execution run #1 of program \'\' failed, ex

Answer 1

There is something wrong with the way you are specifying the executable to the compute profiler. If I put a hash bang line at the top of your posted code:

#!/usr/bin/env python

and then give the python file executable permissions, the compute profiler runs the code without complaint and I get this: