ascendtop
ascendtop is a nvitop-like terminal monitor for Ascend NPUs.
It prefers the Ascend DCMI library (libdcmi.so) through Python ctypes, so it does not depend on the exact text layout of npu-smi info. If DCMI is unavailable, it falls back to parsing npu-smi info.
The terminal layout follows nvitop's main screen structure: an nvidia-smi-style device panel, a compact host CPU/MEM/SWAP panel, and a process panel with NPU PID USER NPU-MEM %SM %HMBW %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND.
Usage
pip install ascendtop
ascendtop
One-shot output:
ascendtop --once
Force backend:
ascendtop --backend dcmi
ascendtop --backend npu-smi
Notes
- The DCMI backend reads card/device metadata, power, temperature, HBM usage, utilization, and process memory via
/usr/local/Ascend/driver/lib64/driver/libdcmi.so. - The fallback parser supports the
npu-smi 26.0.rc1table format. - Process command/user/RSS/CPU details are enriched via
psutilwhen the PID is visible in the current namespace.
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