nvidia-probe.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# prints  a list of NIDIA devices and their type in json format for 
# parsing by ansible program; 
# fields are 'name':'gpu' (fixed)
#            'file': devicePath, (i.e. /dev/nvidia0)
#            'type':typeOfDevice (i.e. 80 parsed from nvidia-smi outout)
# program returns nothing upon error (i.e. no error messages)
# Also checks for existance of /dev/nvidia? where ? is number from nvidia-smi GPU count
# nvidia-smi -L produces output like
#GPU 0: Tesla K80 (UUID: GPU-8bdb2956-4c10-7bd0-80d4-46da054663b4)
#GPU 1: Tesla K80 (UUID: GPU-19ed5f7c-435a-036e-54f0-f64209c3cede)
#GPU 2: Tesla K80 (UUID: GPU-a2f8cfe2-5bbc-de2a-8adc-4038f3379b5e)
#GPU 3: Tesla K80 (UUID: GPU-1c9c0d02-4590-c915-18d2-d709efb56d8d)
#GPU 4: Tesla K80 (UUID: GPU-b0f290c8-3b69-a518-ac77-22718f43e946)
#GPU 5: Tesla K80 (UUID: GPU-565ebca2-6b37-3bc0-a355-72330049a349)
#GPU 6: Tesla K80 (UUID: GPU-d8096845-d8a1-e3ef-ad00-c1d069c1b685)
#GPU 7: Tesla K80 (UUID: GPU-20ee0841-22b5-9974-66c0-b49e5be3e469)

import subprocess
import sys
import re
import os
import json

try:
    #run nvidia-smi -L to parse output
        p = subprocess.Popen(['nvidia-smi', '-L'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                                   stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
        out, err = p.communicate()
        lines=out.strip().split('\n')
        numberOfDevices=len(lines)
        typeofDevice=""
        deviceList=[] #return list
        for line in lines:
                if not line :
                        break
                #print "Line is ",line
                pe=re.compile('GPU\s+(\d*):\s+\S+\s+(\S*)')
                m=pe.search(line)
                if not m:
                        #print "No match found"
                        break
                numberOfDevice=m.group(1)
                typeOfDevice=m.group(2)
                #print "Number of Devics is "+numberOfDevice+" Type of device is "+typeOfDevice
                #check device file existance
                devicePath="/dev/nvidia"+numberOfDevice
                if os.path.exists(devicePath):
                        #print "OK"
                        deviceList.append( { 'name':'gpu' , 'file': devicePath, 'type':typeOfDevice } )
                else:
                    print("error looking for nvidia device")
                    sys.exit(1)
        #now convert list to json 
        output=json.dumps(deviceList)
        print output
except OSError:
        output=json.dumps([])
        print output
#if nvidia-smi is not installed on computer then this error is thrown by subprocess.Popen
        sys.exit(0)