Nsight Compute 2019.4 - New Features

Support for CUDA Toolkit 10.1 Update 2
OptiX applications can now be profiled
Added support for the Linux PowerPC target platform
Reduced the profiling overhead, especially if no source metrics are collected
Reduced the overhead for non-profiled kernels
Improved the deployment performance during remote launches
Trying to profile on an unsupported GPU now shows an "Unsupported GPU" error message
Added support for the %i sequential number placeholder to generate unique report file names
Added support for smsp__sass_* metrics on Volta and newer GPUs
The launch__occupancy_limit_shared_mem now reports the device block limit if no shared memory is used by the kernel

The Profile activity shows the command line used to launch nv-nsight-cu-cli
The heatmap on the Source page now shows the represented metric in its tooltip
The Memory Workload Analysis Chart on the Details page now supports baselines
When applying rules, a message displaying the number of new rule results is shown in the status bar
The Visual Profiler Transition Guide was added to the documentation
Connection dialog activity options were added to the documentation
A warning dialog is shown if the application is resumed without Auto-Profile enabled
Pausing the application now has immediate feedback in the toolbar controls
Added a Close All command to the File menu

Fixed an issue that reported the wrong executable name in the Session page when attaching
Fixed issues that chart labels were shown elided on the Details page
Fixed an issue that caused the cache hitrates to be shown incorrectly when baselines were added
Fixed an illegal memory access when collecting sass__*_histogram metrics for applications using PyTorch on Pascal GPUs
Fixed an issue when attempting to collect all smsp__* metrics on Volta and newer GPUs
Fixed an issue when profiling multi-context applications
Fixed that profiling start/stop settings from the connection dialog weren't properly passed to the interactive profile activity
Fixed that certain smsp__warp_cycles_per_issue_stall* metrics returned negative values on Pascal GPUs
Fixed that metric names were truncated in the --page details non-CSV command line output
Fixed that the target application could crash if a connection port was used by another application with higher privileges

For a complete overview of all NVIDIA Nsight? Compute features and access to resources, please visit the main Nsight? Compute page.

NVIDIA? Nsight? Compute 2019.4 is available for download under the NVIDIA Registered Developer Program.