What is visual profiling?

What is visual profiling?

The Visual Profiler is a graphical profiling tool that displays a timeline of your application’s CPU and GPU activity, and that includes an automated analysis engine to identify optimization opportunities. The nvprof profiling tool enables you to collect and view profiling data from the command-line.

What is the profiling tool?

You can use profiling tools to identify which portions of the program are executed most frequently or where most of the time is spent. Profiling tools are typically used after a basic tool, such as the vmstat or iostat commands, shows that a CPU bottleneck is causing a performance problem.

What is profiler in Visual Studio?

Profiling and diagnostics tools help you diagnose memory and CPU usage and other application-level issues. With these tools, you can accumulate performance data while you run your application.

What are code profiling tools?

Profiling is achieved by instrumenting either the program source code or its binary executable form using a tool called a profiler (or code profiler). Profilers may use a number of different techniques, such as event-based, statistical, instrumented, and simulation methods.

What is NVIDIA SMI?

NVIDIA-smi ships with NVIDIA GPU display drivers on Linux, and with 64bit Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. Nvidia-smi can report query information as XML or human readable plain text to either standard output or a file.

What is profiler C#?

A profiler is a tool that monitors the execution of another application. A common language runtime (CLR) profiler is a dynamic link library (DLL) that consists of functions that receive messages from, and send messages to, the CLR by using the profiling API. The profiler DLL is loaded by the CLR at run time.

How do I use nvidia-SMI?

Accessing nvidia-smi to review GPU Usage

1. Launch the DOS Command Prompt from the Run window (press Win+R on your keyboard to open “run” then type cmd).
2. Change the directory location to the folder where nvidia-smi is located.
3. Type nvidia-smi -l 10 in the DOS window and press enter.
4. Review the nvidia-smi usage summary.

Where is nvidia-SMI EXE?

nvidia-smi.exe is in c:/Windows/System32 so it’s on the PATH by default.