How to check the GPU status on the Nvidia Jetson platform?

The smallest computer in the Jetson family is the Jetson Nano. The Jetson Nano is a small, powerful AI computer that allows you to run multiple neural networks in parallel.

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There are several use cases for which you can use the Jetson Nano. Examples are: Image classification, object recognition, segmentation and speech processing. For this, the platform requires only 5 watts. The explanations in this tutorial were tested on a Jetson Nano, but should work on all Jetson systems.

Nvidia Jetson Nano

Nvidia-smi is not supported on Jetson Platform. Instead nvidia-smi you can use jetson-stats.

Install jetson-stats

First, update and upgrade your system:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Then install jetson-stats:

sudo apt install python-pip -y

# install jetson-stats 
sudo -H pip install jetson-stats

# reboot jetson
sudo reboot

Usage:

jtop

jtop stats

With jtop, some information about the state of the system can be retrieved. You can find more information on Github.

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