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AI & Machine Learning · Intermediate

nvidia-smi

NVIDIA System Management Interface: a command-line tool to query and manage GPU state.

Definition

nvidia-smi shows driver and CUDA versions, GPU utilization, memory use, temperature, power, running processes and MIG configuration. nvidia-smi topo -m shows interconnect topology.

Example

nvidia-smi --query-gpu=utilization.gpu,memory.used --format=csv

Exam tip

First troubleshooting step for a GPU node: run nvidia-smi.

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