

I placed this in my home Downloads directory: cd ~/Downloads The next step is to download the specific DEB package for the 64-bit version of CUDA for Ubuntu 14.04. I'll assume that you have a 64-bit system for the remainder of the article.

This is carried out by installing the build-essential package: sudo apt-get install build-essential The first task is to make sure that you have the GNU compiler collection (GCC) tools installed. In this article I am going to describe the same procedure but carry it out under the latest version of Ubuntu, namely 14.04. In a previous article Valerio Restocchi showed us how to install Nvidia CUDA on a Mac OS X system. CUDA is the industry standard for working with GPU-HPC. In this article I am going to discuss how to install the Nvidia CUDA toolkit for carrying out high-performance computing (HPC) with an Nvidia Graphics Processing Unit (GPU).
