Hybridizer Essentials Linux -- Public Beta

Today we are proud to publish Hybridizer Essentials for Linux as a public beta.

New Features

We introduce some new features, so far only available in this beta, such as:

• SetDistrib and SetStream can be called on the wrapped object instead of HybRunner.
  This leads to more CUDA-like code, such as

wrapped.SetDistrib(32, 256).SetStream(myStream).myKernel(args...)

• cuda.ERROR_CHECK function simplifies error checking whith CUDA API calls.

cuda.ERROR_CHECK(cuda.Malloc(out ptr, size)) // aborts and prints line and file

• Introduced hybridizer-cuda command line tool, which allows user to compile and run a C# file without writing any project or Makefile
• When no device code, or no CUDA device is detected, we run the plain C# code with a warning.

Prerequisites

• Tested on Ubuntu 16.04 – should work on other debian-based systems
• Install a version of CUDA (starting at 8.0 – 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2 supported)
• Install Mono (version 5.8.0.108 or later)

Installation

• Install the package : sudo dpkg -i hybridizer-essentials-amd64-1.0.6151.9352.deb
• Installer should print you about license request -- follow instructions on screen
• If you said no to license request, you can do it later by running /opt/altimesh/hybridizer-essentials/bin/RequestLicense.exe

Run Example

• Save this in a file Test.cs:

using Hybridizer.Runtime.CUDAImports;
using System;
namespace Test
{
    class Program
    {
        [EntryPoint]
        public static void Hello()
        {
            Console.Out.WriteLine("Hello From GPU");
        }

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            dynamic wrapped = HybRunner.Cuda().Wrap(new Program());
            wrapped.SetDistrib(1, 1).Hello();
        }
    }
}

• run the command line
  /opt/altimesh/hybridizer-essentials/bin/hybridizer-cuda -o Test.exe Test.cs -run
• it should print:

Hello From GPU