I’ve got 4 V100s in a Windows 2019 Server. I’d like to have a general idea of my gpu load, but the GPU and GPU Engine columns are greyed out in the Task Manager. I ran dxdiag and see that the DirectX driver is listed as unknown, is this the reason? I installed the driver 511.65-data-center-tesla-d…

Doh! My mistake, my windows file search was on “nvidia-smi”, which doesn’t find “nvidia-smi.exe”!

Tesla V100s are not display capable GPUs. They don’t present themselves to the system as a DirectX device, and so I don’t think windows is going to monitor them as such. You can use nvidia-smi.exe to monitor GPUs. Please use a windows file find utility, such as the one available in Windows File M…

Thanks for your quick response! I searched c: for “nvidia-smi” and got three hits, but they are all files wo an extension, not an executable. I’ve installed the nvidia driver, cuda, cudnn, nsight – is there something else I should have installed? (This is a server configured by Dell.) [image]

[image] scottw: I installed the driver 511.65-data-center-tesla-desktop-winserver-2016-2019-2022-dch-international.exe, when you installed that, it should have installed the nvidia-smi.exe utility. here is a related article

Does installing the driver require a reboot? The installer didn’t mention that. I don’t have the folder: C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVSMI But you can see that I installed the driver: [image]

Thanks, I submitted bug 3567626.

In the meantime, is there anywhere I can get nvidia-smi.exe directly?

I don’t know of any way to install it except via the driver installer. Typically the binary has to be binary-matched with libraries that are also installed by the driver installer. You could try other driver installers, I guess. I don’t have a recipe for you.

So we should probably close the bug report, then?

Task Manager GPU usage disabled: Windows Server 2019, Tesla V100

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Robert_Crovella March 12, 2022, 12:22am 6

sorry, I don’t have a windows server machine to test on. The utility is installed by the driver installer. If that is not happening in your case, the only thing I can suggest is to file a bug.

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Task Manager GPU usage disabled: Windows Server 2019, Tesla V100

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