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Let argparse derive the program name from the actual invocation instead of hardcoding nvbench_compare, so help and error output match the installed nvbench-compare entry point. Declare comparison inputs as explicit positional arguments and use parse_args() instead of parse_known_args(). This preserves --dump-config without input files while rejecting unknown options through argparse rather than treating typoed flags as JSON paths. Add regression coverage for rejecting an unknown CLI option.
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