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- Add DecisionReason(code, message) and internal
  TimingDecision(status, reason).
- SummaryComparison now carries reason
- ComparisonStats now aggregates undecided reasons.
- Final summary prints a reason breakdown only when
  undecided reasons exist, e.g.:

  - Undecided   (comparison requires more evidence): 3
    - Reasons:
      - noise_too_high: 2 (relative dispersion is too
                           high to declare same)
      - weak_interval_overlap: 1 (timing intervals do not
                 overlap strongly enough to declare same)
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CUDA Kernel Benchmarking Package

This package provides a Python API to the CUDA Kernel Benchmarking Library NVBench.

Installation

Install from PyPi

pip install cuda-bench[cu13]  # For CUDA 13.x
pip install cuda-bench[cu12]  # For CUDA 12.x

Building from source

Ensure recent version of CMake

Since nvbench requires a rather new version of CMake (>=3.30.4), either build CMake from sources, or create a conda environment with a recent version of CMake, using

conda create -n build_env --yes  cmake ninja
conda activate build_env

Ensure CUDA compiler

Since building NVBench library requires CUDA compiler, ensure that appropriate environment variables are set. For example, assuming CUDA toolkit is installed system-wide, and assuming Ampere GPU architecture:

export CUDACXX=/usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc
export CUDAARCHS=86

Build Python project

Now switch to python folder, configure and install NVBench library, and install the package in editable mode:

cd nvbench/python
pip install -e .

Verify that package works

python test/run_1.py

Run examples

# Example benchmarking numba.cuda kernel
python examples/throughput.py
# Example benchmarking kernels authored using cuda.core
python examples/axes.py
# Example benchmarking algorithms from cuda.cccl.parallel
python examples/cccl_parallel_segmented_reduce.py
# Example benchmarking CuPy function
python examples/cupy_extract.py