Installing Nsight in Visual Studio 2013

Question

I want to install Nsight in Visual Studio 2013 so that I can start working with CUDA. However, as of now, Nvidia has not released a version of Nsight for Visual Studio 2013.

I want to develop in Visual Studio 2013 because I do not have Visual Studio 2012 nor Visual Studio 2010. What are my options? How can I develop CUDA applications in Visual Studio 2013?

Answer 1

Here is CUDA 6.0 Release Candidate that is supposed to support 2013 is now available that was released in Febuary of this year.

https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit

NOTE: looks like this release will NOT have support for the VS 2013(VC12) compiler. The next version of the RC. The next CUDA version will have support for the VC12 compiler, with candidate builds being available this summer

Source: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/622306/visual-studio-2013-and-nsight/?offset=23

Answer 2

CUDA 6.5 Release Candidate (Link 2) and NVIDIA Nsight Visual Studio Edition 4.1 Release Candidate 1 (Link 2) are both released on NVIDIA Developer site now; they both provide VS2013 support. You don't have to have VS2012 installed alongside with VS2013 anymore.

To download CUDA 6.5 RC, you have to be part of NVIDIA's CUDA/GPU Computing Registered Developer Program, and to download Nsight Visual Studio Edition 4.1 RC1, you have to be part of NVIDIA's Graphics/Game Development Registered Developer Program. I don't know why they have different requirements. You can register an account on NVIDIA Developer site and opt-in the programs from your account information, for free. Applications are usually processed within a day.