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Show HN: Utilyze – an open source GPU monitoring tool more accurate than nvtop

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The standard GPU utilization metric reported by nvidia-smi, nvtop, Weights & Biases, Amazon CloudWatch, Google Cloud Monitoring, and Azure Monitor is highly misleading.

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It reports the fraction of time that any kernel is running on the GPU, which means a GPU can report 100% utilization even if only a small portion of its compute capacity is actually being used.

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In practice, we've seen workloads with ~1–10% real compute throughput while dashboards show 100%.This becomes a problem when teams rely on that metric for capacity planning or optimization decisions, it can make underutilized systems look saturated.We're releasing an open-source (Apache 2.0) tool, Utilyze, to measure GPU utilization differently.

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It samples hardware performance counters and reports compute and memory throughput relative to the hardware's theoretical limits.

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