CUDA on a system that has no GPU

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I do not have a GPU card installed in my system. I would like to know if there is any way I can code in CUDA and access CUDA libraries on my GPU-less laptop?

Might I recommend OpenCL since it's not tied to nvidia. See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4850358/when-writing-opencl-code-how-does-it-perform-on-a-single-core-machine-without-a. Comparison: http://wiki.tiker.net/CudaVsOpenCL — beatgammit, Mar 15 '13 at 18:39
Related: [GPU Emulator for CUDA programming without the hardware](http://stackoverflow.com/a/36273426/4694621) — Mateusz Piotrowski, Sep 01 '16 at 12:52

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '13 at 18:29

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Yes, you can use a CUDA emulator such as

https://code.google.com/p/cuda-waste/

https://code.google.com/p/gpuocelot/

Note that the performance for many tasks will be far inferior to an actual GPU, but you can learn the programming model with an emulator.

answered Mar 15 '13 at 18:29

Eric J.

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These are both long out of support and unusable in 2019 – talonmies Dec 22 '19 at 13:19
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Feel free to add an answer that's valid in 2019. This answer was posted in 2013. – Eric J. Dec 24 '19 at 21:13
The best solution is to delete this. The question is closed as a duplicate of a modern relevant answer – talonmies Dec 24 '19 at 21:24

CUDA on a system that has no GPU

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