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This page introduces how to check whether your NVIDIA GPU card is a CUDA enabled, and whether the latest NVIDIA drivers are installed.
Nvidia-smi (also NVSMI) provides monitoring and management capabilities for each of NVIDIA's Tesla, Quadro, GRID and GeForce GPU device from Fermi and higher architecture families. The following steps can be used to access nVidia-smi and review real-time GPU usage statistics for TUFLOW simulations:
 
== CUDA Compatible Graphics ==
== Accessing nvidia-smi to review GPU Usage ==
TUFLOW GPU requires an NVIDIA CUDA enabled GPU. To check if your computer has an NVIDA GPU and if it is CUDA enabled:
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<li> Right click on the Windows desktop.<br>
<li> Launch the DOS Command Prompt from the Run window (press Win+R on your keyboard to open "run" then type '''<tt>cmd</tt>''').<br>
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<li> Change the directory location to the folder where nvidia-smi is located. Type '''<tt>cd C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVSMI</tt>''' into the DOS window and press enter.<br>
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