GPU Operation of the Jetoson Orin Nano Developer Kit

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Orin Nano
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When I ran the program I created on another PC with a GPU, the GPU in the Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit did not seem to be working.

I ran nvcc -version and got the following result.

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nvcc: NVIDIA (R) Cuda compiler driver
Copyright (c) 2005-2023 NVIDIA Corporation
Built on Tue_Aug_15_22:08:11_PDT_2023
Cuda compilation tools, release 12.2, V12.2.140
Build cuda_12.2.r12.2/compiler.33191640_0
±-------------------------------------------------------------+

Next, nvidia-smi was run with the following results.

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| NVIDIA-SMI 540.2.0 Driver Version: N/A CUDA Version: 12.2 |
|-----------------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
ECC | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | | MIG M. | GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr.
| MIG M. | ++++
| =========================================+======================+======================|
| 0 Orin (nvgpu) N/A | N/A N/A N/A | N/A
| N/A N/A N/A N/A / N/A | Not Supported | N/A N/A |
| N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
±----------------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+

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| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=======================================================================================|
| No running processes found |
±--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

I thought gpu was not running because the driver was not installed, although CUDA was installed.
Does sudo apt install nvidia-jetpack not install the driver?
If not, what should I do?

The version of Jetpack is 6.0-b52.

Thank you in advance for your answer.

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Hi gecreative.kasa,

NVIDIA-SMI is part of a data center or gaming or visualization GPU driver. It is not available on the Jetson platform.
Download the full Jetpack and you have everything you need to run Jetson.
On the Jetson platform you can use programs like Jtop to monitor the GPU, similar to NVIDIA-SMI. You can search for many related topics in the forum.

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Hi Jackdaws_3,
Thank you for your answer.

“sudo apt install nvidia-jetpack”
So, do you have everything you need to run Jetson?

If “sudo apt install nvidia-jetpack” does not have everything, how can I download the complete Jetpack and install it on my Jetson Orin Nano Develope Kit?

Sorry for the additional questions, but I would appreciate your answers.

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Hi gecreative.kasa,

Sorry for the late reply. Let’s clarify it.
You can download the full Jetpack in two methods：

  1. NVIDIA SDK Manager. You can use it to flash an image that including various Jetpack components for your device.
  2. Flash Jetson Linux BSP, and Install Jetpack components on Jetson Linux. NVIDIA offers Jetpack components as Debian packages, the following commands will install all other Jetpack components that correspond to your version of Jetson Linux L4T:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nvidia-jetpack

These two methods are just different steps, designed to adapt to the needs of different stages, but have the same results. You can verify that the GPU works by running some cuda samples.

Jetson is an embedded platform with tegra soc at its center. When you correctly flash the BSP for it, you have driven the module, including the soc on the module.

This is very different from installing a GPU driver on your host in order to use a PCIe GPU card.

Hope I make it clear:)

B&R

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Hi Jackdaws_3,
Thank you for your detailed answer.

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