IDE Nvidia’s Eclipse Nsight

Nsight Eclipse Edition

Nsight Eclipse is a tool made by NVidia to assist in edditing, building, debugging Cuda applications. It is avaible on the NVidia developer site at: https://developer.nvidia.com/nsight-eclipse-edition

Creating a caffe Project

1. Launch Nsight.
2. Navigate to File -> New -> Makefile Project with Existing Code.
3. Name your project caffe, or something of your choosing.
4. Under existing code location, select the browse button.
5. Navigate to your caffe directory.
6. Select OK.
7. Select Finish.
8. Open the caffe Makefile.config and uncomment the debug line: DEBUG := 1.

Building caffe and tests

Building caffe

Select the hammer icon in the top menu bar. It should work out of the box.

Building Tests

1. In the Make Target Pane, right-click and select New...
2. Name the target build_test.
3. Clear the Make Target field.
4. In the Build Command field enter make test -j <Number of cores that you have>

When this is complete, the Make Target Pane should have a target named build_test. Double click build your tests.

Running All Tests

1. In the Make Target Pane, right-click and select New...
2. Name the target run_all_tests.
3. Clear the Make Target field.
4. In the Build Command field enter make runtest

When this is complete, the Make Target Pane should have a target named run_all_tests. Double click this to run all of your tests.

Debugging

First Time

1. Ensure that you've built everything (the code and the tests).
2. Click the bug icon in the top menu.
3. You will be presented with a list of bin objects.
4. Select the one you want to debug.

Second Time and on (if you don't want to debug the same bin)

1. Select the little arrow beside the bug icon.
2. Select Debug Configurations....
3. Under the Main tab, select Search Project.
4. Select the new bin you want to debug.

Some additional references

http://www.pittnuts.com/2015/06/build-and-debug-caffe-in-nsight/