Updates in 2019.4 — NsightCompute 12.6 documentation

# Updates in 2019.4

General

- 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

NVIDIA Nsight Compute

- The Profile activity shows the command line used to launch ncu

- 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

NVIDIA Nsight Compute CLI

- The `--query-metrics` option now shows only metric base names for faster metric query. The new option `--query-metrics-mode` can be used to display the valid suffixes for each base metric.

- Added support for passing response files using the `@` operator to specify command line options through a file

Resolved Issues

- 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