[Beowulf] nvidia card id?
Tim Cutts
tjrc at sanger.ac.uk
Tue Jul 14 01:20:58 PDT 2009
On 13 Jul 2009, at 7:49 pm, Mark Hahn wrote:
>> Does anyone know off hand if there is a way to pull the exact card
>> information from an nvidia GPU inside a linux server from linux
>> itself?
>
> well, there's lspci. is that what you meant? it's usually a bit
> fuzzy how to match the pci-level id (vendor/device/revision) to
> marketing names. but afaik, the data from lspci is fundamental.
On Debian-derived systems, such as Ubuntu, there's a utility to
download the latest PCI ID database, to give you a fighting chance:
/usr/bin/update-pciids
It's probably present on other distros too, or something similar at
any rate.
Tim
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