Add rocm-smi to GPU docs (#1102)

* Add rocm-smi to gpu docs * spellcheck sampling --------- Co-authored-by: Nicole Marsaglia <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/src/docs/sphinx/Actions/Binning.rst b/src/docs/sphinx/Actions/Binning.rst
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ simulation codes, regardless of the underlying mesh representation.
 
 Sampling and Aggregation
 ------------------------
-When specifying the number of bins on an axis, there will always be over smapling or undersampling.
-During spatial binning, each zone is placed into a bin based on it centriod, and as with all
+When specifying the number of bins on an axis, there will always be over sampling or undersampling.
+During spatial binning, each zone is placed into a bin based on its centriod, and as with all
 binning, this is subject to over sampling or under sampling.
 
 
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ example.
 
   An example of spatial over sampling.
 
-When oversamping data, the default value of an empy bin is 0. That said, the default empty
+When oversampling data, the default value of an empty bin is 0. That said, the default empty
 value can be overridden by an option named parameter, e.g., `empty_bin_val=100`.
 This is often useful when the default value is part of the data range, and setting
 the empty bin value to something known, allows the user to filter out empty bins

diff --git a/src/docs/sphinx/GPU_notes.rst b/src/docs/sphinx/GPU_notes.rst
@@ -16,6 +16,19 @@ By default, each CUDA capable GPU device is queried, and a rank is assigned a de
 Collisions could result in a run-time failure or significant delays. 
 This default behavior can be overridden. Please see the Ascent options for more details.
 
+Using ROCm-SMI on AMD GPUs
+--------------------------
+ROCm-SMI stands for ROCm System Management Interface and provides an interfaces for applications and users to monitor and control GPU applicatoins. 
+
+ROCm-SMI can be used to verify GPU usage. 
+This is done by launching your application and then using ROCm-SMI on the same node to monitor the running job. 
+
+The following call will monitor the usage of GPUs every tenth of a second:
+
+.. code-block:: sh
+
+   watch -n 0.1 rocm-smi    
+
 Using RocProf on AMD GPUs
 -------------------------
 RocProf is a command line tool provided by ROCm that is implemented on top of the rocProfiler and rocTracer APIs.