Score-P NVML Plugin

This code provides a Score-P plugin to access NVIDIA Management Library (NVML)

Installation

If not present on your system get NVML from NVIDIA Management Library (NVML), install it with ./gdk_linux_*_release.run --installdir=<PATH> --silent and setup paths

git clone [email protected]:score-p/scorep_plugin_nvml.git
cd scorep_plugin_nvml
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ../
make

# copy libnvml*_plugin.so into your LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Usage

Sampling plugin seems to be more efficient than async (which samples via polling) or sync plugin but supports less metrics. It uses special buffers on the GPU which continuously sample.

The advantage of using this method for samples in contrast to polling via existing methods is to get get higher frequency data at lower polling cost. -- NVML Docs

Be aware that some metrics are not supported on all devices, e.g. utilization_gpu in sampling mode can not be used on NVIDIA K80 or GTX 1080 cards. The NVML documentation seems to be a bit vague.

Sampling

• SCOREP_METRIC_PLUGINS=nvml_sampling_plugin
• SCOREP_METRIC_NVML_SAMPLING_PLUGIN="utilization_gpu,power_usage"

Optional :

• SCOREP_METRIC_NVML_SAMPLING_PLUGIN_INTERVAL="5000" (interval to poll the gpu in milliseconds, default 5000ms, note that this does not effect resolution of measurement, which is device and metric specific and can not be changed. Buffer sizes on the GPU also differ and can not be changed. Setting SCOREP_METRIC_NVML_SAMPLING__PLUGIN_INTERVAL to high will make you loose datapoints.)

Available metrics

• clock_sm
• clock_mem
• power_usage
• utilization_gpu
• utilization_mem

Async

The a sync plugin polls devices every SCOREP_METRIC_NVML_PLUGIN_INTERVAL to get the current value.

• SCOREP_METRIC_PLUGINS=nvml_plugin
• SCOREP_METRIC_NVML_PLUGIN="utilization_gpu,power_usage"

Optional :

• SCOREP_METRIC_NVML_PLUGIN_INTERVAL="50" (measurement interval in milliseconds, default 50ms)

Sync Plugin

The a sync plugin polls devices on trace events (e.g. ENTER and LEAVE) to get the current value.

• SCOREP_METRIC_PLUGINS=nvml_sync_plugin
• SCOREP_METRIC_NVML_SYNC_PLUGIN="utilization_gpu,power_usage"

Available metrics

• clock_sm
• clock_mem
• fan_speed
• mem_free
• mem_used
• pcie_send
• pcie_recv
• power_usage
• temperature
• utilization_gpu
• utilization_mem
• freq_sm
• freq_mem
• freq_graphics

Developer note

Current nvml.h can be found under https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-settings/blob/master/src/nvml.h