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NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit
README.txt
Version 2.1
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November 2008
Copyright (C) 2008 NVIDIA Corp.

This distribution contains
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- NVIDIA CUDA toolkit documentation
- NVIDIA CUDA compiler (nvcc) and supporting tools
- NVIDIA CUDA runtime and driver libraries
- NVIDIA CUBLAS and CUFFT libraries

Please see the release notes (doc/CUDA_Release_Notes_2.1.txt) for detailed
information about this release.


Documentation (located in the doc directory)
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CUBLAS_Library_2.1.pdf
  User manual for the CUDA accelerated BLAS implementation.

CUDA_Profiler_2.1.txt
  Guide for using the profiler.

CUDA_Release_Notes_2.1.txt
  Release notes with release-specific information.

CUFFT_Library_2.1.pdf
  User manual for the CUDA accelerated FFT library.

EULA.txt
  The end user license agreement.

nvcc_2.1.pdf
  Documentation for the CUDA command line compiler.

PTX_ISA_1.3.pdf
  User manual for the Parallel Thread Execution ISA.

README.txt
  This file.


Important Files
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  bin/nvcc       Command line compiler

  include/
    cuda.h       CUDA driver API header
    cudaGL.h     CUDA OpenGL interop header
    cudaD3D9.h   CUDA DirectX 9 interop header
    cudaD3D10.h  CUDA DirectX 10 interop header
    cufft.h      CUFFT API header
    cublas.h     CUBLAS API header

  lib/
    cuda         CUDA driver library
    cudart       CUDA runtime library
    cublas       CUDA BLAS library
    cufft        CUDA FFT library
    cublasemu    CUBLAS CPU emulation library
    cufftemu     CUFFT CPU emulation library


Supported NVIDIA Hardware
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- See http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_learn_products.html


Supported Software Platforms
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32-bit operating systems
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7*
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2*
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.0 SP1
- SUSE Linux 10.3
- SUSE Linux 11.0*
- Fedora 8
- Fedora 9*
- Ubuntu 7.10
- Ubuntu 8.04*

64-bit operating systems
- Windows XP (64-bit)
- Windows Vista (64-bit)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7*
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2*
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.0 SP1
- SUSE Linux 10.3
- SUSE Linux 11.0*
- Fedora 8
- Fedora 9*
- Ubuntu 7.10
- Ubuntu 8.04*

* new support with CUDA v2.1
