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Device Hardware
CUDA (Device Architecture)
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SM
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Special Function Unit
SFU
Load/Store Unit
LSU
Warp Scheduler
CUDA Core
Tensor Core
Streaming Multiprocessor Architecture
Texture Processing Cluster
TPC
Graphics/GPU Processing Cluster
GPC
Register File
L1 Data Cache
GPU RAM
Device Software
CUDA (Programming Model)
Streaming ASSembler
SASS
Parallel Thread eXecution
PTX
Compute Capability
Thread
Warp
Cooperative Thread Array
Kernel
Thread Block
Thread Block Grid
Memory Hierarchy
Registers
Shared Memory
Global Memory
Host Software
CUDA (Software Platform)
CUDA C++ (programming language)
NVIDIA GPU Drivers
nvidia.ko
CUDA Driver API
libcuda.so
NVIDIA Management Library
NVML
libnvml.so
nvidia-smi
CUDA Runtime API
libcudart.so
NVIDIA CUDA Compiler Driver
nvcc
NVIDIA Runtime Compiler
NVIDIA CUDA Profiling Tools Interface
CUPTI
NVIDIA Nsight Systems
CUDA Binary Utilities
Contributors
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What is libcudart.so?

The typical name for the binary shared object file that implements the CUDA Runtime API on Linux systems. Deployed CUDA binaries often statically link this file, but libraries and frameworks built on the CUDA Toolkit, like PyTorch, typically load it dynamically.

CUDA Runtime API
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