Installation instructions for GPU-PRISM

Before following the standard instructions for building and installing PRISM from source code, some additional steps must be performed first:

  1. Install the latest version of CUDA for your platform. You must install the latest device driver, the toolkit, and the SDK.
  2. Unpack the GPU-PRISM archive, and edit the Makefile located in src/sparse. This file includes definitions INCLUDES and LIBRARIES, and these need to include paths to the relevant folders of the CUDA toolkit and the SDK. Please change -I/Developer/GPU\ Computing/C/common/inc to the appropriate subfolder of your SDK installation, and -I/usr/local/cuda/include and -L/usr/local/cuda/lib to the appropriate subfolders of your toolkit installation.

Using GPU-PRISM

Besides the functionality of standard PRISM, GPU-PRISM includes the command-line option -gpu, which invokes the appropriate GPU method whenever the given model yields a sparse matrix. Apart from SOR (Gauss-Seidel), all sparse matrix methods are supported.