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As of writing the combined download count of the GPU Thermal Monitor has hit 520

So far I’m yet to receive any major feedback on bugs etc which leads me to believe it: a) works perfectly or b) no-one is bothering to report issues. As I’m an optimist I’m going with option a 

I’ve had more requests for remote monitoring of the GPU temperature via a simple http request. This is something I need myself in order to keep track of temperatures in remote machines. This is now built in and in testing and bug fixing, hopefully to be released soon. I’ve not used completion ports as they seemed like overkill for what should be a light traffic application but as the source is included and under creative commons license please feel free to add them if needed. Secondly having it open source allows for some code review, which is important for security reasons as it now allows remote connections.

If you have found a bug or would like another feature added please drop me a comment or email.

Finally v0.1 of the BV2 GPU Thermal Monitor is ready for download. It is available in the downloads section of the site. The source code is included! Please note that I only partially translated the nvapi.h file to an .inc file.

Please note that it is licensed differently from other content here and is under the Creative Commons “Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales” License. Basically this means you are free to copy, use and modify the code/application in any way you like as long as: you give the original author credit and if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a licence identical to this one.

By downloading you agree to be bound by the license.

Ok legalities out the way

BV2 Thermal Monitor:

BV2 Thermal Monitor v0.1 Screenshot

Currently it is version 0.1 and does basic temperature monitoring of up to two NVidia GPU’s.

It updates approximately every 500ms.

It can be minimized to the system tray where hovering the mouse over the icon will display a tooltip with the temperatures detected. (more…)

I was hoping to release the GPU temperature monitor to the downloads section sometime during this last bank holiday weekend. I had also planned to sort out my somewhat ailing / overheating computer and perform some upgrades. Unfortunately the repair / upgrades took almost 2 full days. My pc is now running a lot cooler and a bit quieter and I am now something of an expert with heat spreader / heat sink cleaning and thermal grease application.  By the way artic silver is really good! Even before the 200 hour break in period mentioned on their site I’m already seeing more than 10 degrees lower temperature on the CPU.

As to the upgrades:  more posts on this later But it did include me purchasing Windows XP Professional 64bit.

The longer than expected pc maintenance time has impacted the GPU Thermal Monitor application and it won’t be ready for a few more days. A bit of good news about it though:  it works perfectly on Windows XP 64bit without any modifications. Don’t you just love asm :)  Some of my other C/C++ applications were not quite so happy on the new OS.

Keep watching this space for release date

(update 27/5/09 - I’ve now released v0.1 - see this post )

It’s been a while since my last post as I’ve been rather busy with work and some other projects - so time for a quick update. 

While working on some long running kernels I wanted to keep track of the GPU’s temperature and ran the monitor app that came on their installation disks. The problem with the monitoring apps that I have is that they are quite large and take up a lot of screen space and for some unknown reason they crash / stop working when viewed over VNC (or similar) remote control app.  Now as I mostly use my CUDA machines over the network this is not a good situation.

So decided to write my own :)  Here is a screenshot of the initial version. It still needs config and some cleaning up (can you spot the glitch by the minimize button?) and possibly some remote reporting over the network functionality. Currently it can display the temperature from two GPU’s and updates every 500ms. When minimized it sits in the system tray and updates its tooltip with the reported temperatures. I will be releasing it to the downloads section of the website sometime over the weekend. The current .exe is 146k (mostly the skin) and doesn’t require any installer.

GPU Thermal Monitoring Application

Nothing wrong with a bit of self promotion sometimes