Enhance gpustat to Display Latest CUDA Version Compatible with Current NVIDIA Driver about gpustat HOT 4 OPEN

No worries. I think now I'm convinced it would be useful information to display.

The GPU driver version is not intuitive and is somewhat useless.

But I would say I disagree with this, GPU driver version is more useful than the CUDA compatibility version.

Anyway this is not difficult to add so I will implement it soon.

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knowing the latest CUDA version it supports is crucial.

Why don't use simply run nvidia-smi to figure out such information? You do not need to search the online documentation.

This is usually done just only once or very infrequently around when you install the driver. Once driver version is fixed, this information doesn't change on runtime or depending on particular python(conda) environments. I'm not sure this is important information worth including in gpustat.

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Describe alternatives you've considered While manually running nvidia-smi can accomplish the aforementioned objective, incorporating this feature would allow us to operate independently of nvidia-smi. This enhancement could streamline the tools and facilitate multi-machine monitoring with gpustat-web.

I had written down some reasons here. @wookayin , in your opinion, the GPU driver version can also be determined by running nvidia-smi, so why does gpustat still include it? I believe that, in the major application field of NVIDIA GPUs—specifically in machine learning (ML)—displaying the CUDA version is more worthwhile than including the GPU driver version. The GPU driver version is not intuitive and is somewhat useless. The CUDA version is what we care about the most in CUDA programming.

What I've considered is, if I use gpustat-web to monitor many GPU machines shared by my team—machines with various types of GPUs and different CUDA driver versions (GPU driver versions) that could be updated to a new version at some point—I hope to determine which GPU machine has free GPU cards and whether its CUDA version is new enough for my needs.

Lastly, this enhancement could streamline the tools; typing one command is better than two, isn't it?

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I apologize for unintentionally mistakenly closing the issue just now.

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