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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Nvidia" title="Nvidia">Nvidia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data">June 2007<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2007-06</span>)</span></td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Stable release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">12.6.0

/ August 2024<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2024-08</span>)</span></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">

</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Available in</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Compiler" title="Compiler">Compiler</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Proprietary_software" title="Proprietary software">Proprietary</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-compiler-driver-nvcc">docs<wbr>.nvidia<wbr>.com<wbr>/cuda<wbr>/cuda-compiler-driver-nvcc</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><b> Nvidia CUDA Compiler</b> (<b>NVCC</b>) is a <a href="Compiler" title="Compiler">compiler</a> by <a href="Nvidia" title="Nvidia">Nvidia</a> intended for use with <a href="CUDA" title="CUDA">CUDA</a>. It is <a href="Proprietary_software" title="Proprietary software">proprietary software</a>.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Compiler">Compiler</h2></div>

<p>CUDA code runs on both the <a href="Central_processing_unit" title="Central processing unit">central processing unit</a> (CPU) and <a href="Graphics_processing_unit" title="Graphics processing unit">graphics processing unit</a> (GPU). NVCC separates these two parts and sends host code (the part of code which will be run on the <a href="CPU" class="mw-redirect" title="CPU">CPU</a>) to a <a href="C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a> compiler like <a href="GNU_Compiler_Collection" title="GNU Compiler Collection">GNU Compiler Collection</a> (GCC) or <a href="Intel_C%2B%2B_Compiler" title="Intel C++ Compiler">Intel C++ Compiler</a> (ICC) or <a href="Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B" title="Microsoft Visual C++">Microsoft Visual C++</a> Compiler (MVCC), and sends device code called "kernels" (the part which will run on the GPU) to the GPU. The device code is further compiled by NVCC. NVCC is based on <a href="LLVM" title="LLVM">LLVM</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Nvidia provided documentation, nvcc in version 7.0 supports many language constructs that are defined by the <a href="C%2B%2B11" title="C++11">C++11</a> standard, and a few from <a href="C99" title="C99">C99</a>. In version 9.0, several more constructs from the <a href="C%2B%2B14" title="C++14">C++14</a> standard are added.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Any source file containing CUDA language extensions (.cu) must be compiled with nvcc. NVCC is a compiler driver which works by invoking all the necessary tools and compilers like cudacc, g++, cl, etc. NVCC can output either C code (CPU Code) that must then be compiled with the rest of the application using another tool or <a href="Parallel_Thread_Execution" title="Parallel Thread Execution">Parallel Thread Execution</a> (PTX) or object code directly. An executable with CUDA code requires: the CUDA core <a href="Library_(computing)" title="Library (computing)">library</a> (cuda) and the CUDA runtime library (cudart).

</p><p>Other widely used libraries:

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<ul><li>CUBLAS: BLAS implementation</li>

<li>CUFFT: FFT implementation</li>

<li>CUDPP (Data Parallel Primitives): Reduction, Scan, Sort.</li>

<li>Thrust: Reduction, Scan, Sort.</li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="OpenCL" title="OpenCL">OpenCL</a></li>

<li><a href="Heterogeneous_System_Architecture" title="Heterogeneous System Architecture">Heterogeneous System Architecture</a></li>

<li><a href="CUDA_binary" class="mw-redirect" title="CUDA binary">CUDA binary</a> (cubin) – a type of fat binary</li></ul>

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</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-llvm-compiler">"CUDA LLVM Compiler"</a>. Nvidia Developer<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">Apr 6,</span> 2016</span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-c-programming-guide/">"CUDA C++ Programming Guide"</a>. <i>NVIDIA Documentation Hub</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2019-06-28</span></span>.</cite></span>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General">General</h3></div>

<ol><li>David B. Kirk, and Wen-mei W. Hwu. Programming massively parallel processors: a hands-on approach. Morgan Kaufmann, 2010.</li>

<li><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-compiler-driver-nvcc/">"Nvidia CUDA Compiler Driver NVCC"</a>. <i>Nvidia Documentation Hub</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231013194328/https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-compiler-driver-nvcc/">Archived</a> from the original on Oct 13, 2023.</cite></li>

<li><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181117222643/http://gpgpu.org/developer/cudpp">"CUDPP"</a>. <i>GPGPU</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gpgpu.org/developer/cudpp">the original</a> on Nov 17, 2018.</cite></li></ol>

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<ul><li><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-compiler-driver-nvcc">Official website</a></span></span></li></ul></div><div><div class="zim-footer">

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