nvitop
Interactive terminal viewer for NVIDIA GPUs and the processes running on them.
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About nvitop
nvitop is an interactive process viewer for NVIDIA GPUs. It shows device usage alongside the processes using each GPU and lets you manage those processes from the terminal, going further than the plain output of nvidia-smi.
The project also includes nvitop-exporter for sending GPU metrics to other monitoring systems. It suits people running machine learning jobs or sharing GPU servers who need to see what is using each card.
Strengths
- Interactive process management for GPU workloads
- More readable than raw nvidia-smi output
- Includes an exporter for metrics collection
Limitations
- NVIDIA GPUs only
- Terminal interface only
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source.
- License
- Apache-2.0 AND GPL-3.0
- Developer
- Xuehai Pan
- Platforms
- Linux, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Watching and managing GPU processes on shared NVIDIA machines
- Categories
- System monitoring, Local AI tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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