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Main Authors: Zadenoori, Mohammad Amin, Ceccaroni, Riccardo, Sales, Gabriele, Risso, Davide
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13928
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author Zadenoori, Mohammad Amin
Ceccaroni, Riccardo
Sales, Gabriele
Risso, Davide
author_facet Zadenoori, Mohammad Amin
Ceccaroni, Riccardo
Sales, Gabriele
Risso, Davide
contents NVIDIA GPUs have recently started to be used in computational biology, yet R users lack integrated GPU monitoring tools, forcing reliance on external utilities like nvidia-smi. We introduce CudaMon, an R package providing real-time monitoring of GPU utilization, memory, temperature, and power draw via NVML, along with data export and visualization utilities. Monitoring a GPU-accelerated single-cell RNA-seq pipeline (1M brain cells, RAPIDS workflow) shows that compute-intensive steps (PCA, UMAP, t-SNE) exceed 90% GPU utilization, while data management phases reveal bottlenecks. CudaMon facilitates resource optimization, performance debugging, and reproducibility for GPU-accelerated R workflows.
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spellingShingle CudaMon: An R Package to Monitor NVIDIA GPUs, Showcased by Monitoring a GPU-accelerated Single-cell Analysis Workflow in R
Zadenoori, Mohammad Amin
Ceccaroni, Riccardo
Sales, Gabriele
Risso, Davide
Computation
NVIDIA GPUs have recently started to be used in computational biology, yet R users lack integrated GPU monitoring tools, forcing reliance on external utilities like nvidia-smi. We introduce CudaMon, an R package providing real-time monitoring of GPU utilization, memory, temperature, and power draw via NVML, along with data export and visualization utilities. Monitoring a GPU-accelerated single-cell RNA-seq pipeline (1M brain cells, RAPIDS workflow) shows that compute-intensive steps (PCA, UMAP, t-SNE) exceed 90% GPU utilization, while data management phases reveal bottlenecks. CudaMon facilitates resource optimization, performance debugging, and reproducibility for GPU-accelerated R workflows.
title CudaMon: An R Package to Monitor NVIDIA GPUs, Showcased by Monitoring a GPU-accelerated Single-cell Analysis Workflow in R
topic Computation
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13928