ECC option on the GPU

[vsunil]

Please provide complete information as applicable to your setup.

• Hardware Platform (Jetson / GPU)

DGPU - A4000

• DeepStream Version

6.2

• JetPack Version (valid for Jetson only)

N/A

• TensorRT Version

8.5.2

• NVIDIA GPU Driver Version (valid for GPU only)

Driver version 535

• Issue Type( questions, new requirements, bugs)

We wanted to know if ECC should be enabled or disabled on the GPU (A4000) while running deepstream 6.2 applications. Is there any impact on ECC on the deepstream pipeline?

We check the status using : nvidia-smi -q -d ECC

Thank you

[Fiona.Chen]

@vsunil

Is there any impact on ECC on the deepstream pipeline?

The DeepStream is only a SDK. It will not impact ECC of GPU.

[vsunil]

Thanks, would it be better to turn on ECC since it can help tolerate memory errors while running the application?

[Fiona.Chen]

It has nothing to do with DeepStream. It depends on your requirement. To enable ECC may cause extra GPU consumption while accelerating GPU compute and accuracy. You should weigh the pros and cons by yourself.