Technical requirements

A Linux or Windows 10 PC with a modern NVIDIA GPU (2016 onward) is required for this chapter, with all necessary GPU drivers and the CUDA Toolkit (9.0 onward) installed. A suitable Python 2.7 installation (such as Anaconda Python 2.7) with the PyCUDA module is also required.

This chapter's code is also available on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-GPU-Programming-with-Python-and-CUDA.

For more information about the prerequisites, check the Preface of this book; for the software and hardware requirements, check the README section in https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-GPU-Programming-with-Python-and-CUDA.

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