Episode 286: GPU Profiling with NVIDIA Nsight Compute (NCU)

In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Marco Franzreb Salgado about profiling GPU code with NVIDIA Nsight Compute (NCU).

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About the Guest:

Marco is a software engineer at NVIDIA, where he works on improving the nvCOMP library, which offers fast GPU implementations of multiple data compression formats. For the past couple of months he has been working on a GPU implementation of the rotate algorithm.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-05-05
Date Released: 2026-05-15

• ADSP Episode 237: Thrust with Jared Hoberock
• ADSP Episode 284: GPU Rotate
• ADSP Episode 285: GPU Rotate (Part 2)
• NVIDIA CCCL
• NVIDIA nvCOMP
• NVIDIA Nsight Systems
• NVIDIA Nsight Compute
• NVIDIA CuTe DSL
• NVIDIA CUDA Tile
• cudaMemCopyAsync
• PERF WARS: EPISODE I
• Hoogle Translate partition
• Singeli
• ADSP Episode 97: C++ vs Carbon vs Circle vs CppFront with Sean Baxter

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