Build the examples by typing in each directory: make -j 16 To specify a target device: KOKKOS_DEVICES=OpenMP make -j 16 KOKKOS_DEVICES=Pthread make -j 16 KOKKOS_DEVICES=Serial make -j 16 KOKKOS_DEVICES=Cuda make -j 16 Some of the advanced topics try to highlight performance impacts by timing different variants of doing the same thing.