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:

Answer 2

There are two methods that you can use.

Launch the Script Interpreter

Launch    python
Arguments "/pathtopycudafile/mysuperkernel.py"

Launch a Executable Script

Launch    "/pathtopycudafile/mysuperkernel.py"
Arguments [blank]

mysuperkernel.py must be executable (chmod +x)
mysuperkenrel.py must have a #! to specify the path to the interpreter

See @talonmies answer