Serial Number from GPU from C++ (without using nvidia-smi)

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Is there a method to read the GPU 2050/2070 serial number from a C++ (linux) application without calling nvidia-smi?

Thanks!

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Check out NVML. It is a public API for querying GPU information like this. The nvidia-smi tool is built on NVML.

NVML ships with the display driver and is typically installed to /usr/lib64/libnvidia-ml.so.

http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/DevZone/NVML/doxygen/index.html

Keep in mind that the serial number is a board serial number, as opposed to a GPU serial number.

Also worth noting, are the Perl and Python bindings to NVML.
http://search.cpan.org/search?query=nvidia%3A%3Aml
http://packages.python.org/nvidia-ml-py/

-Robert

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Robert,

Thanks! I’ll have a look.

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Robert,

Works great!

Thanks again.