Instructions to add CUDA support (optional)

If you would like to use GPU acceleration of PyCBC through CUDA you will require these additional packages:

These packages may not be available via the distribution packaging system, at least in the required versions. As described below, most of these packages are available via the python package installer pip, however custom installation instructions are given where required.

If you are currently in your virtual environment, leave it by running deactivate as you need to add some additional environment variables before continuing. Set the shell variable NAME to the location of your virtual environment. Here we assume that your virtual environment is installed in ${HOME}/pycbc-dev. If it is in different location, you will need to change this as appropriate.

NAME=${HOME}/src/pycbc

The install requires that you set the environment variable CUDA_ROOT, make sure that the CUDA bin directory is in your path, and add the CUDA library path to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. You can do this by adding these commands to your activate script by running the commands:

echo 'export CUDA_ROOT=/usr/local/cuda' >> $NAME/bin/activate
echo 'export PATH=${CUDA_ROOT}/bin:${PATH}' >> $NAME/bin/activate
echo 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${CUDA_ROOT}/lib64:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}' >> $NAME/bin/activate

Now activate your virtual environment.

source ${NAME}/bin/activate

Installing the CUDA dependencies

Install the dependencies PyCUDA, SciKits.cuda and Mako with by running the commands

pip install pycuda
pip install scikit-cuda
pip install Mako

You should now be able to use the CUDA features in PyCBC.