1. Installing CUDA, PyCUDA on Ubuntu

2. Installing CUDA on Ubuntu Linux1
Cuda download site
$ sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1404_7.5-18_amd64.deb
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install cuda
$ vim ~/.bashrc
# cuda
export CUDA_HOME=/usr/local/cuda
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${CUDA_HOME}/lib64
export PATH=${CUDA_HOME}/bin:${PATH}
$source ~/.bashrc
$ cuda-install-samples-7.5.sh ~
$ cd ~/NVIDIA_CUDA-7.5_Samples
$ cd 1_Utilities/deviceQuery
$ make

3. Installing PyCUDA on Ubuntu Linux2
Step 0: Ensure that CUDA is installed and settings are correct
Step 1: Install gcc4.8 (Ubuntu 14.04)
Step 2: Install Boost C++ libraries
Step 3: Install numpy $
Numpy download site
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc-4.8 g++-4.8
$ cd /usr/bin
$ sudo ln -sf gcc-4.8 gcc
$ sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
$ sudo apt-get install python-numpy –y
$ cd pycuda-VERSION
$ sudo "python distribute_setup.py"
$ sudo "easy_install numpy"
$ sudo apt-get install git
$git clone numpy

4. Step 4: Download, unpack and install PyCUDA
Download pycuda
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev python-setuptools libboost-python-dev libboost-thread-dev –y
$ tar xzvf pycuda-VERSION.tar.gz
$ cd pycuda-VERSION
$ ./configure.py --cuda-root=/usr/local/cuda --cudadrv-lib-dir=/usr/lib --boost-inc-dir=/usr/include --boost-lib-dir=/usr/lib --boost-python-libname=boost_python-py27 --boost-thread-libname=boost_thread
$ make -j 4
$ sudo python setup.py install
$ sudo pip install .
$ ./configure.py --python-exe=/usr/bin/python3 --cuda-root=/usr/local/cuda --cudadrv-lib-dir=/usr/lib --boost-inc-dir=/usr/include --boost-lib-dir=/usr/lib --boost-python-libname=boost_python-mt-py32 --boost-thread-libname=boost_thread-mt --no-use-shipped-boost
$ sudo python3 setup.py install

5. Step 5: Import pycuda on system python
$ cd /usr/bin
$ ./python
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
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>>> import pycuda
>>> dir(pycuda)
['VERSION', 'VERSION_STATUS', 'VERSION_TEXT', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__']
>>> pycuda.VERSION
(2015, 1, 3)
>>> import numpy
>>> numpy.__version__
'1.8.2'

6. Installing PyCUDA on anaconda python3
Step 0: Anaconda download site
Step 1: Python path setting
Step 2: Install pycuda
$bash Anaconda Linux-x86_64.sh
$vim ~/.bashrc
# python
export PYTHONPATH=“/home/nh/anaconda2/bin:$PYTHONPATH”
$sourcd ~/.bashrc
$ cd anaconda2
$ conda install pip
$ pip install pycuda

7. Step 3: Import cuda on anaconda python
Python |Anaconda (64-bit)| (default, Dec , 18:08:32)
[GCC (Red Hat )] on linux2
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>>> import pycuda
>>> dir(pycuda)
['VERSION', 'VERSION_STATUS', 'VERSION_TEXT', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__package__', '__path__']