Technical requirements

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

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

For more information about the prerequisites, check out the preface of this book. For more information about the software and hardware requirements, check out the README file at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-GPU-Programming-with-Python-and-CUDA.

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