<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks for the pointers. I'll try to work with the UCS-ISI team that currently maintains those stories and see if we can reconcile or close the old blueprints. <div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Aug 14, 2013, at 6:03 AM, Bob Ball <<a href="mailto:bob.ball@citrix.com">bob.ball@citrix.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Brian,<br><br>Instead of specific GPU pass-through there are blueprints for generic PCI pass through at <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/pci-passthrough-base">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/pci-passthrough-base</a> - these are being worked on for Havana and we're hopeful they will get in (possibly libvirt only) <br><br>In terms of vGPU rather than whole-GPU pass through, the slides are correct that XenServer support is very nearly here: <a href="http://www.xenserver.org/discuss-virtualization/q-and-a/nvidia-vgpu-on-xenserver-eg-gpu-hypervisor.html">http://www.xenserver.org/discuss-virtualization/q-and-a/nvidia-vgpu-on-xenserver-eg-gpu-hypervisor.html</a><br><br>Support for static allocation of vGPU is likely going to be the first phase - and adding it as a resource similar to RAM/CPU isn't likely to be proposed until a second phase.<br><br>As such, I think the integration should be very similar to PCI pass through above.<br><br><br>Bob <br><br><blockquote type="cite">-----Original Message-----<br>From: Brian Schott [mailto:brian.schott@<a href="http://nimbisservices.com">nimbisservices.com</a>]<br>Sent: 13 August 2013 23:07<br>To: <a href="mailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org">openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a><br>Subject: [openstack-dev] GPU passthrough support blueprints for OpenStack<br><br>Are there more recent blueprints related to adding GPU pass-through<br>support? All that I can find are some stale blueprints that I created around<br>the Cactus timeframe (while wearing a different hat) that are pretty out of<br>date.<br><br>I just heard a rumor that folks are doing Nvidia GRID K2 GPU passthrough<br>with KVM successfully using linux 3.10.6 kernel with RHEL.<br><br>In addition, Lorin and I did some GPU passthrough testing back in the spring<br>with GRID K2 on HyperV, libvirt+xen, and XenServer. Slides are here:<br><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/bfschott/nimbis-schott-">http://www.slideshare.net/bfschott/nimbis-schott-</a><br>openstackgpustatus20130618<br><br>The virtualization support for GPU-enabled virtual desktops and GPGPU<br>seems to have stabilized this year for server deployments. How is this going<br>to be supported in OpenStack?<br><br>Brian<br><br>-------------------------------------------------<br>Brian Schott, CTO<br>Nimbis Services, Inc.<br>brian.schott@nimbisservices.com<br>ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060<br><br><br></blockquote><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenStack-dev mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org">OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a><br>http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>