NVIDIA Nsight Eclipse Edition as an OS X App
Edit 2016-02-19: By chance, I found out, what I wrote below is not true. NVIDIA supplies a bundled App for OS X for Nsight (and also for the Visual Profiler, nvvp
). They are located at /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-7.5/libnsight/nsight.app
and libnvvp/nvvp.app
. Just create aliases from there to your /Applications/
folder and you’re done. Easy!
I leave the rest below for completeness.
NVIDIA bundles a custom Eclipse IDE version in their CUDA Toolkit, the Nsight Eclipse Edition. A handy tool for local and remote GPU development.
Usually, the program is started via command line invocation (»nsight
«, resolved to /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-7.5/bin/nsight
or the likes via your $PATH
).
To start it as a more proper OS X App, AppleScript can be used. Open Script Editor.app
(in /Applications/Utilities/
) and paste the following
run application "/Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-7.5/bin/nsight"
modifying the path to the executable accordingly.
Save the file as a program in /Applications/
(~/Applications/
) and, voila, you can start it with Spotlight or Alfred.
To change the icon of the app, select it in Finder, hit ⌘+i
, select the icon on the upper left side and paste (⌘+v
) an image from clipboard – e.g. a cutout from the logo on the official NVIDIA webpage for Nsight Eclipse edition.