Episode 286: GPU Profiling with NVIDIA Nsight Compute (NCU)

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Conor and Bryce discuss GPU profiling techniques with Marco Franzreb Salgado from NVIDIA.

In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Marco Franzreb Salgado about profiling GPU code with NVIDIA Nsight Compute (NCU). Link to Episode 286 on WebsiteDiscuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub)Socials ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: LinkTree / BioBryce Adelstein Lelbach: TwitterAbout the Guest: Marco is a software engineer at NVIDIA, where he works on improving the nvCOMP library, which offers fast GPU implementations of multiple data compression format...

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Hosts: Conor Hoekstra, Bryce Adelstein Lelbach

Guest: Marco Franzreb Salgado

Topics covered

• GPU profiling
• NVIDIA Nsight Compute
• software engineering
• data compression
• performance optimization

Keywords

• GPU
• profiling
• NVIDIA
• Nsight Compute
• software engineering
• data compression
• performance

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Organizations: NVIDIA, nvCOMP

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