If you have a Mac with a CUDA-capable graphic card, you probably actually have two graphic cards: an integrated one and a separate, discrete one.

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In this guide I will explain how to install CUDA 6.0 for Mac OS X.

CUDA is a proprietary programming language developed by NVIDIA for GPU programming, and in the last few years it has become the standard for GPU computing.

GPU computing is a new branch of computer science and, more specifically, of parallel computing.

You have to move to a new town and are looking to hire a furniture mover company.

You have two choices: the first company can provide you with the strongest man alive driving the worlds fastest van.

The second one instead has 5 normal men available, each of them with a van of average speed.

What would you prefer Of course it depends of how much stuff you have to move and how much time you have to do it.

Each of the men is much slower than the strong guy, but if they are able to transport your load concurrently they will have the time to complete the task, have a beer together and come back to their family before the strong guy has done half the work.

GPU computing is like having hundreds and thousands of skinny guys with old vans, which can be pretty effective.

What follows are the instructions to install the necessary software to use thousands of vans to enhance the performance of your code.

The most important one is a CUDA-capable GPU, so you need a recent NVIDIA graphics card.

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The other requirement is to have the CUDA Toolkit, which is free and provides you all you need to install and run CUDA code.

Choose your operating system (in this case I presume Mac OS X) and then download the package by clicking on PKG.

In this case I have two of them and, fortunately, one of them is an NVIDIA.

If you dont, you can download Mavericks (OS X 10.9) from the App Store, which is free.

In the situation where you cannot install OS X 10.8 or later, dont worry: you can install older CUDA releases.

The installation is similar, but if some of you experience trouble, I will provide help in future articles.

They are compliers for the C-family of programming languages and CUDA is a library for them.

Actually, you will code the serial (non-parallel) parts of your code in C or C.

To get these two compilers you first need the Command Line Tools, which once again are free to download from the App Store.

If you already have the CommandLineTools folder you should very likely even have the clang and gcc packages.

Despite the fact that the only essential one is the CUDA Driver, I suggest you install all of them, as they are very useful.

At one point you will have to agree to terms and conditions by clicking on the Agree button when it appears) and then Install in the final one.

Now you have CUDA 6.0 installed on your Mac, but it is not quite ready to be used.

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