GPU details

[banesullivan]

How would we get info about the GPU?

[banesullivan]

There's an excellent description of the GPU/display hardware in pyvista/pyvista#301 (comment)

[banesullivan]

PyVista will need a way to programmatically see what brand of GPU is being used (ref pyvista/pyvista#277 (comment)) e.g. NVIDIA, Radeon, Intel, etc.

[prisae]

IMHO, anything GPU related should be optional.
E.g., scooby.Report(usual_args, gpu_info=False/True).

[banesullivan]

Ah yes definitely - I think we'll have to use external libraries to get this info which would mean optional dependencies.

We talked about the structure for extras at some point... maybe on slack?

[prisae]

I think you referred to the following, it was indeed on Slack; here a condensed version:

• Bane [5:07 PM]
  my hesitation to drop to 2 files is that before long, I’m going to figure out how to report info about the GPU (need for PyVista) and I imagine that down the road, we may need other info like stats about Fortran, C++, etc. compilers (thinking about GeoBIPy and some geostats libs that interface to Fortran)

  Since we need to keep scooby as having no non-standard dependencies, maybe it would make since to have a mixins module (a directory like what I made for discretize to add support for vtk and omf) where we could have all the extras based on the dependencies they require (edited)

• prisae [5:07 PM]
  That might be a good way forward

• Bane [5:08 PM]
  Also, what about if we need to report on a cluster/distributed network?
  Maybe a simple mixin would work?

• prisae [5:08 PM]
  Again, in that case, report.py would mostly stay the way it is

• Bane [5:11 PM]
  I say let’s go forward with your reduction to two files
  it cleans it up well and then when I figure out the GPU stuff I’ll refactor the stuff that requires optional dependencies into a new mixins module

• prisae [5:13 PM]
  Great. That is good. With time knowledge might only contain dictionaries, and other files will be for system, gpu, network, etc

• Bane [5:14 PM]
  That’s exactly what I’m thinking - but for now it works well