cuDeviceGetAttribute (3)

NAME

Device Management -

Functions

CUresult cuDeviceGet (CUdevice *device, int ordinal)
Returns a handle to a compute device.
CUresult cuDeviceGetAttribute (int *pi, CUdevice_attribute attrib, CUdevice dev)
Returns information about the device.
CUresult cuDeviceGetCount (int *count)
Returns the number of compute-capable devices.
CUresult cuDeviceGetName (char *name, int len, CUdevice dev)
Returns an identifier string for the device.
CUresult cuDeviceTotalMem (size_t *bytes, CUdevice dev)
Returns the total amount of memory on the device.

Detailed Description

\brief device management functions of the low-level CUDA driver API (cuda.h)

This section describes the device management functions of the low-level CUDA driver application programming interface.

Function Documentation

CUresult cuDeviceGet (CUdevice * device, int ordinal)

Returns in *device a device handle given an ordinal in the range [0, cuDeviceGetCount()-1].

Parameters:

device - Returned device handle
ordinal - Device number to get handle for

Returns:

CUDA_SUCCESS, CUDA_ERROR_DEINITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_CONTEXT, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_VALUE, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_DEVICE

Note:

Note that this function may also return error codes from previous, asynchronous launches.

See also:

cuDeviceGetAttribute, cuDeviceGetCount, cuDeviceGetName, cuDeviceTotalMem

CUresult cuDeviceGetAttribute (int * pi, CUdevice_attribute attrib, CUdevice dev)

Returns in *pi the integer value of the attribute attrib on device dev. The supported attributes are:

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_THREADS_PER_BLOCK: Maximum number of threads per block;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_BLOCK_DIM_X: Maximum x-dimension of a block;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_BLOCK_DIM_Y: Maximum y-dimension of a block;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_BLOCK_DIM_Z: Maximum z-dimension of a block;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_GRID_DIM_X: Maximum x-dimension of a grid;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_GRID_DIM_Y: Maximum y-dimension of a grid;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_GRID_DIM_Z: Maximum z-dimension of a grid;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_SHARED_MEMORY_PER_BLOCK: Maximum amount of shared memory available to a thread block in bytes;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_TOTAL_CONSTANT_MEMORY: Memory available on device for __constant__ variables in a CUDA C kernel in bytes;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_WARP_SIZE: Warp size in threads;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_PITCH: Maximum pitch in bytes allowed by the memory copy functions that involve memory regions allocated through cuMemAllocPitch();

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE1D_WIDTH: Maximum 1D texture width;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE1D_LINEAR_WIDTH: Maximum width for a 1D texture bound to linear memory;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE1D_MIPMAPPED_WIDTH: Maximum mipmapped 1D texture width;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE2D_WIDTH: Maximum 2D texture width;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE2D_HEIGHT: Maximum 2D texture height;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE2D_LINEAR_WIDTH: Maximum width for a 2D texture bound to linear memory;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE2D_LINEAR_HEIGHT: Maximum height for a 2D texture bound to linear memory;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE2D_LINEAR_PITCH: Maximum pitch in bytes for a 2D texture bound to linear memory;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE2D_MIPMAPPED_WIDTH: Maximum mipmapped 2D texture width;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE2D_MIPMAPPED_HEIGHT: Maximum mipmapped 2D texture height;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE3D_WIDTH: Maximum 3D texture width;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE3D_HEIGHT: Maximum 3D texture height;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE3D_DEPTH: Maximum 3D texture depth;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE3D_WIDTH_ALTERNATE: Alternate maximum 3D texture width, 0 if no alternate maximum 3D texture size is supported;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE3D_HEIGHT_ALTERNATE: Alternate maximum 3D texture height, 0 if no alternate maximum 3D texture size is supported;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE3D_DEPTH_ALTERNATE: Alternate maximum 3D texture depth, 0 if no alternate maximum 3D texture size is supported;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURECUBEMAP_WIDTH: Maximum cubemap texture width or height;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE1D_LAYERED_WIDTH: Maximum 1D layered texture width;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE1D_LAYERED_LAYERS: Maximum layers in a 1D layered texture;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE2D_LAYERED_WIDTH: Maximum 2D layered texture width;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE2D_LAYERED_HEIGHT: Maximum 2D layered texture height;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURE2D_LAYERED_LAYERS: Maximum layers in a 2D layered texture;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURECUBEMAP_LAYERED_WIDTH: Maximum cubemap layered texture width or height;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_TEXTURECUBEMAP_LAYERED_LAYERS: Maximum layers in a cubemap layered texture;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_SURFACE1D_WIDTH: Maximum 1D surface width;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_SURFACE2D_WIDTH: Maximum 2D surface width;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_SURFACE2D_HEIGHT: Maximum 2D surface height;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_SURFACE3D_WIDTH: Maximum 3D surface width;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_SURFACE3D_HEIGHT: Maximum 3D surface height;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_SURFACE3D_DEPTH: Maximum 3D surface depth;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_SURFACE1D_LAYERED_WIDTH: Maximum 1D layered surface width;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_SURFACE1D_LAYERED_LAYERS: Maximum layers in a 1D layered surface;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_SURFACE2D_LAYERED_WIDTH: Maximum 2D layered surface width;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_SURFACE2D_LAYERED_HEIGHT: Maximum 2D layered surface height;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_SURFACE2D_LAYERED_LAYERS: Maximum layers in a 2D layered surface;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_SURFACECUBEMAP_WIDTH: Maximum cubemap surface width;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_SURFACECUBEMAP_LAYERED_WIDTH: Maximum cubemap layered surface width;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAXIMUM_SURFACECUBEMAP_LAYERED_LAYERS: Maximum layers in a cubemap layered surface;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_REGISTERS_PER_BLOCK: Maximum number of 32-bit registers available to a thread block;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_CLOCK_RATE: The typical clock frequency in kilohertz;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_TEXTURE_ALIGNMENT: Alignment requirement; texture base addresses aligned to textureAlign bytes do not need an offset applied to texture fetches;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_TEXTURE_PITCH_ALIGNMENT: Pitch alignment requirement for 2D texture references bound to pitched memory;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_GPU_OVERLAP: 1 if the device can concurrently copy memory between host and device while executing a kernel, or 0 if not;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MULTIPROCESSOR_COUNT: Number of multiprocessors on the device;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_KERNEL_EXEC_TIMEOUT: 1 if there is a run time limit for kernels executed on the device, or 0 if not;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_INTEGRATED: 1 if the device is integrated with the memory subsystem, or 0 if not;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_CAN_MAP_HOST_MEMORY: 1 if the device can map host memory into the CUDA address space, or 0 if not;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_COMPUTE_MODE: Compute mode that device is currently in. Available modes are as follows:

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CU_COMPUTEMODE_DEFAULT: Default mode - Device is not restricted and can have multiple CUDA contexts present at a single time.

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CU_COMPUTEMODE_PROHIBITED: Compute-prohibited mode - Device is prohibited from creating new CUDA contexts.

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CU_COMPUTEMODE_EXCLUSIVE_PROCESS: Compute-exclusive-process mode - Device can have only one context used by a single process at a time.

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_CONCURRENT_KERNELS: 1 if the device supports executing multiple kernels within the same context simultaneously, or 0 if not. It is not guaranteed that multiple kernels will be resident on the device concurrently so this feature should not be relied upon for correctness;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_ECC_ENABLED: 1 if error correction is enabled on the device, 0 if error correction is disabled or not supported by the device;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_PCI_BUS_ID: PCI bus identifier of the device;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_PCI_DEVICE_ID: PCI device (also known as slot) identifier of the device;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_TCC_DRIVER: 1 if the device is using a TCC driver. TCC is only available on Tesla hardware running Windows Vista or later;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MEMORY_CLOCK_RATE: Peak memory clock frequency in kilohertz;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_GLOBAL_MEMORY_BUS_WIDTH: Global memory bus width in bits;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_L2_CACHE_SIZE: Size of L2 cache in bytes. 0 if the device doesn't have L2 cache;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_THREADS_PER_MULTIPROCESSOR: Maximum resident threads per multiprocessor;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_UNIFIED_ADDRESSING: 1 if the device shares a unified address space with the host, or 0 if not;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_COMPUTE_CAPABILITY_MAJOR: Major compute capability version number;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_COMPUTE_CAPABILITY_MINOR: Minor compute capability version number;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_GLOBAL_L1_CACHE_SUPPORTED: 1 if device supports caching globals in L1 cache, 0 if caching globals in L1 cache is not supported by the device;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_LOCAL_L1_CACHE_SUPPORTED: 1 if device supports caching locals in L1 cache, 0 if caching locals in L1 cache is not supported by the device;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_SHARED_MEMORY_PER_MULTIPROCESSOR: Maximum amount of shared memory available to a multiprocessor in bytes; this amount is shared by all thread blocks simultaneously resident on a multiprocessor;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_REGISTERS_PER_MULTIPROCESSOR: Maximum number of 32-bit registers available to a multiprocessor; this number is shared by all thread blocks simultaneously resident on a multiprocessor;

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MANAGED_MEMORY: 1 if device supports allocating managed memory on this system, 0 if allocating managed memory is not supported by the device on this system.

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MULTI_GPU_BOARD: 1 if device is on a multi-GPU board, 0 if not.

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MULTI_GPU_BOARD_GROUP_ID: Unique identifier for a group of devices associated with the same board. Devices on the same multi-GPU board will share the same identifier.

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_HOST_NATIVE_ATOMIC_SUPPORTED: 1 if Link between the device and the host supports native atomic operations.

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_SINGLE_TO_DOUBLE_PRECISION_PERF_RATIO: Ratio of single precision performance (in floating-point operations per second) to double precision performance.

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_PAGEABLE_MEMORY_ACCESS: Device supports coherently accessing pageable memory without calling cudaHostRegister on it.

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_CONCURRENT_MANAGED_ACCESS: Device can coherently access managed memory concurrently with the CPU.

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_COMPUTE_PREEMPTION_SUPPORTED: Device supports Compute Preemption.

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CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_CAN_USE_HOST_POINTER_FOR_REGISTERED_MEM: Device can access host registered memory at the same virtual address as the CPU.

Parameters:

pi - Returned device attribute value
attrib - Device attribute to query
dev - Device handle

Returns:

CUDA_SUCCESS, CUDA_ERROR_DEINITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_CONTEXT, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_VALUE, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_DEVICE

Note:

Note that this function may also return error codes from previous, asynchronous launches.

See also:

cuDeviceGetCount, cuDeviceGetName, cuDeviceGet, cuDeviceTotalMem

CUresult cuDeviceGetCount (int * count)

Returns in *count the number of devices with compute capability greater than or equal to 1.0 that are available for execution. If there is no such device, cuDeviceGetCount() returns 0.

Parameters:

count - Returned number of compute-capable devices

Returns:

CUDA_SUCCESS, CUDA_ERROR_DEINITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_CONTEXT, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_VALUE

Note:

Note that this function may also return error codes from previous, asynchronous launches.

See also:

cuDeviceGetAttribute, cuDeviceGetName, cuDeviceGet, cuDeviceTotalMem

CUresult cuDeviceGetName (char * name, int len, CUdevice dev)

Returns an ASCII string identifying the device dev in the NULL-terminated string pointed to by name. len specifies the maximum length of the string that may be returned.

Parameters:

name - Returned identifier string for the device
len - Maximum length of string to store in name
dev - Device to get identifier string for

Returns:

CUDA_SUCCESS, CUDA_ERROR_DEINITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_CONTEXT, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_VALUE, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_DEVICE

Note:

Note that this function may also return error codes from previous, asynchronous launches.

See also:

cuDeviceGetAttribute, cuDeviceGetCount, cuDeviceGet, cuDeviceTotalMem

CUresult cuDeviceTotalMem (size_t * bytes, CUdevice dev)

Returns in *bytes the total amount of memory available on the device dev in bytes.

Parameters:

bytes - Returned memory available on device in bytes
dev - Device handle

Returns:

CUDA_SUCCESS, CUDA_ERROR_DEINITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_NOT_INITIALIZED, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_CONTEXT, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_VALUE, CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_DEVICE

Note:

Note that this function may also return error codes from previous, asynchronous launches.

See also:

cuDeviceGetAttribute, cuDeviceGetCount, cuDeviceGetName, cuDeviceGet,

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