Nsight Systems 2024.6.1 Desktop-Server (x86-64|Arm SBSA) Release Announcement

Nsight Systems 2024.6.1 Desktop-Server (x86-64|Arm SBSA) Release Announcement

The latest update to NVIDIA Nsight Systems - a triage and performance analysis tool designed to track GPU workloads to their CPU origins within a system-wide view. These features help you analyze your applications’ GPU utilization, graphic and compute API activity, and OS runtime operations. This helps optimize your application to perform and scale efficiently across any quantity or size of CPUs and GPUs—from workstations to supercomputers.—is now available for download. Nsight Systems 2024.6.1 introduces several improvements aimed to enhance the profiling experience.

2024.6.1 highlights

  • DirectX12 memory resource trace improvements:

    • New chart displays the distribution of DirectX12 resource types allocated by the target process in VRAM, across the trace session."
  • Storage profiling (beta)

    • Lustre & NFS - Performance metrics and operation counters for mounted volumes. (beta)
    • NVMe-oF (NVMe over fiber) - Performance metrics from mounted volumes. (beta)
    • Local storage - Performance metrics from local devices (beta)
    • Example use-cases
      • Verify GPU compute & storage transfer concurrency
      • Identify GPU compute idle due to a storage transfer dependencies

Nsight Systems is part of the powerful debugging and profiling NVIDIA Nsight Tools Suite. A developer can start with Nsight Systems for an overall system view and avoid picking less efficient optimizations based on assumptions and false-positive indicators.

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