Profiling GPU with Nvidia tools

Using Nsight systems

To install Nsight systems:

  • Download from Nvidia
  • Make executable with chmod a+x NsightSystems-linux-public-2020.5.1.85-5ee086b.run
  • install with ./NsightSystems-linux-public-2020.5.1.85-5ee086b.run
  • Add to path export PATH="/home/othrif/setup/nsight-systems-2020.5.1/target-linux-x64:$PATH"
  • Run profiling tool with: nsys profile ./program

Using nvida-smi

nvidia-smi -l 1 >> gpu-stats.out