Mandelbrot Set with CUDA

I am attempting to work through the three methods to compute the Mandelbrot Set outlined on this page. I am stuck on the third method, which I think is also demonstrated here. In particular, I cannot compile the .cu file using mexcuda:

mexcuda -ptx pctdemo_processMandelbrotElement.cu

I have installed MATLAB Support for MinGW-w64 C/C++ Compiler, NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 12.2 and Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 (but I'm not completely sure if I installed the C++ Compiler with Visual Studio).

Is there something else I am missing? I am on a Windows 10 PC with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 and MATLAB R2023a Update 3. See below for the error(s) I am getting:

Answer 1

[Ty]

NVidia CUDA requires the Visual C++ compiler. It looks like MATLAB is showing you only have MinGW available. I would double check that you selected the "Desktop development with C++" workflow during the Visual Studio 2022 install. Just re-run the installer which should allow you to add or remove packages.

After you've verified that, see if it now lists the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler when you run the "mex -setup C++" command. You can add a verbose flag with "-v" to see which program folders it's checking.

Lastly, once you've been able to switch the compilers, make sure you've followed the instructions for Setting Up the Prerequisite Products. There are a few system environment variables that need to get set.

[Anton Kogios]

Hi Ty, thank you so much for your reply, and apologies for taking a long time to respond.

I finally got around to looking at this again, and have since gotten Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler to work. However, I am now stuck at this line:

kernel = parallel.gpu.CUDAKernel(ptxFilename,cudaFilename);

What I believe is the source of the issue is the PTX code not compiling correctly. I have attached it as a TXT file, and it appears to not have any actual code in it.

I attempted the first example on the CUDAKernel documentation page, and that seemed to compile fine, not that I would know what a correct PTX file would look like (resulting PTX file also attached as TXT file).

In terms of setting up the prerequisite products as you mentioned, a couple of the coder.checkGpuInstall tests fail on my system. However, I am not too sure how to address them.

gpuEnvObj = coder.gpuEnvConfig;
gpuEnvObj.BasicCodegen = 1;
gpuEnvObj.BasicCodeexec = 1;
gpuEnvObj.DeepLibTarget = 'tensorrt';
gpuEnvObj.DeepCodeexec = 1;
gpuEnvObj.DeepCodegen = 1;
results = coder.checkGpuInstall(gpuEnvObj)

I also attempted to run the GPU Environment Check app, and it all seems to be fine (results attached as PDF).

Edit: I just checked this, and it appears that when I follow the example on this page, it works fine.