# Check GPU Utilization
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/check-gpu-utilization/2677
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [October 3, 2019, 11:49am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/check-gpu-utilization/2677 "2019-10-03T11:49:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@nopech](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nopech)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2019, 11:49am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/check-gpu-utilization/2677/1 "2019-10-03T11:49:32Z")
Hello everyone
I’m using the precompiled binary “ParaView-5.7.0-RC4-MPI-Linux-Python3.7-64bit” from the website on a virtual machine with Ubuntu 18.04 in Azure. The Nvidia GRID driver is installed and paraview does work.
At the startup of ParaView it also shows me that the GPUs are recognized:
But i’m unsure if ParaView actually uses my GPUs because ParaView is not in the list of processes using the GPUs when I run “nvidia-smi”. Also the utilization is always 0% even if a large model is loaded and moved around in the render view.
The performance is also not as good as i hoped. This made me thinking if something is not correctly set up.
Thank you in advance
nopech
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2019, 11:56am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/check-gpu-utilization/2677/2 "2019-10-03T11:56:41Z")
What do you have in Help -\> About dialog ?
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### Author:  [@nopech](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nopech)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2019, 11:58am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/check-gpu-utilization/2677/3 "2019-10-03T11:58:55Z")
Does OpenGL Version: Mesa means it is using software rendering? This is not supposed to happen with a GPU available right?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2019, 12:00pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/check-gpu-utilization/2677/4 "2019-10-03T12:00:02Z")
That’s exactly what it means. what is the output of `glxinfo` ?
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### Author:  [@nopech](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nopech)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2019, 12:02pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/check-gpu-utilization/2677/5 "2019-10-03T12:02:59Z")
Does this output give you the information you were looking for?
Edit: Attached is a more verbose output[log.glxinfo](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/5YQwX6bj2V1BLrelKF91uS7erbt.glxinfo) (63.3 KB)
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2019, 1:00pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/check-gpu-utilization/2677/6 "2019-10-03T13:00:55Z")
Yes, you computer is not configured to use your GPU.
You need to install your GPU driver.
This issue is not related to ParaView.
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### Author:  [@nopech](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nopech)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/check-gpu-utilization/2677/7 "2019-10-03T13:02:50Z")
Thank you for the information. I will contact the hardware supplier (Azure).