Tolstoy’s Novel Released in NVIDIA’s Resource Folder

We can see that technology companies make interesting additions to their files from time to time, both for testing and for a little surprise. The last name to come up with this surprise the other day NVIDIA it happened. A Reddit user shared that NVIDIA’s in the CUDA file He got a surprise he couldn’t understand.

When the user using NVIDIA’s free developer kit CUDA Toolkit opens the folder where CUDA is located, ‘warandpeace.txtHe came across a file named ‘. to Turkish War and peace This text document, named after the novel translated as the entire novel contained. The document consisted of a total of 65,340 lines.

Why did NVIDIA add War and Peace to the source folder?

The Reddit user who shared it thought that the document in question was added to the source folder as an ‘easter egg’. But the truth of the matter was later shared by another Reddit user. Responding to the share, the user explained the source code that the file is used in, and that this source code is actually used for some kind of test stated.

According to the user’s description, the source code in which the file in question is used, Counting letters ‘w,x,y and z’ it creates a kernel and sends the text file to the video card memory and runs the kernel in the text file. So in this process All the letters w, x, y and z in the novel War and Peace are counted. If the novel War and Peace was chosen for the test in question, it is explained that it probably does not violate copyright, it is large enough to see the difference between the methods used, and at the same time it includes a low number of data entries to ensure that this process is completed in a short time.