This library allows running CUDA applications using only the driver API (https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/archive/9.0/cuda-driver-api/index.html). It's functional enough to run simple CUDA applications, but is not tested beyond that.

NOTE: Google is not planning to make any further changes to this library. It's a proof-of-concept implementation released in hope that it will be useful on platforms where the CUDA runtime library is not available.

This library only works for CUDA code compiled with CUDA-9.0 or older. More recent CUDA versions use slightly different API to set up and launch kernels and will need to implement a handful of additional functions.

The library has only been tested on Linux.

Prerequisites: clang-7.0.0 or newer.

$ # git clone <...>/gpu-runtime.git
$ cd gpu-runtime
$ git submodule update --init --recursive
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake cmake -DCUDA_ROOT=/path/to/cuda-9.0 -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/path/to/recent/clang++ ../
$ make -j 8
$ make test

Link your application with gpu-runtime.o instead of -lcudart.