[Accepted] Add intel-gpu-tools package to SCALE

Feature Requests
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Problem/Justification
With the new support for Intel ARC GPUs, we expect them to become a popular alternative to NVIDIA cards for media transcoding. Including the intel-gpu-tools package will allow users access to intel_gpu_top for performance metrics, similar to the existing nvidia-smi command.

Impact
Intel GPU users (both integrated and discrete) will have access to a monitoring toolset.

User Story
Users looking to validate proper offloading of functionality to their Intel iGPU/dGPU can easily perform this from the CLI.

Additional Information
I have tested this on 24.04.2 with dev mode and an Intel ARC A750 GPU - the functionality works as expected.

The following additional packages will be installed:
  libcairo2 libxcb-render0 libxrender1 libxv1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  intel-gpu-tools libcairo2 libxcb-render0 libxrender1 libxv1
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
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After this operation, 14.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Can be used to validate functional driver loads and render dev attachment:

root@supermicro[/home/admin]# intel_gpu_top -lL
card0                    Intel Dg2 (Gen12)                 pci:vendor=8086,device=56A1,card=0
└─renderD128

As well as real-time monitoring

intel-gpu-top: Intel Dg2 (Gen12) @ /dev/dri/card0 - 1795/2397 MHz;   0% RC6
        670 irqs/s

         ENGINES     BUSY                                       MI_SEMA MI_WAIT
       Render/3D    0.00% |                                   |      0%      0%
         Blitter    0.00% |                                   |      0%      0%
           Video   37.16% |█████████████▏                     |      0%      0%
    VideoEnhance    0.00% |                                   |      0%      0%
       [unknown]   16.00% |█████▋                             |      0%      0%

   PID              NAME  Render/3D   Blitter     Video    [unknown]
 94603            ffmpeg |         ||         ||███▋     ||         ||         |
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I would also be nice to add HPE Agentless Management (https://downloads.linux.hpe.com/SDR/project/mcp/).

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Hey @Olini

Per the rules of the Feature Request area, if you would like to propose a new feature please create a separate thread in this forum using the template, as this appears to be unrelated to the topic of Intel GPU monitoring.

Thanks :slight_smile:

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Hi @HoneyBadger,

I thought I would fall into Hardware related packages. But I will gladly create a separate Feature Request :smiley:

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https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-130356

Closing this request as the ticket was created.

Thanks for the suggestion and the votes.

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