Dear All,
we are planning to have a POC on VGPUs in our Openstack cluster.
Therefore I have a few questions and generally wanted to ask how
well VGPUs are supported in Openstack. The docs, in particular:
https://docs.openstack.org/nova/zed/admin/virtual-gpu.html
explain quite well the general implementation.
But I am more interested in general experience with using VGPUs in
Openstack. We currently have a small YOGA cluster, planning to
upgrade to Zed soon, with a couple of compute nodes. Currently our
users use consumer cards like RTX 3050/3060 on their laptops and
the idea would be to provide VGPUs to these users. For this I
would like to make a very small POC where we first equip one
compute node with an Nvidia GPU. Gladly also a few tips on which
card would be a good starting point are highly appreciated. I know
this heavily depends on the server hardware but this is something
I can figure out later. Also do we need additional software
licenses to run this? I saw this very nice presentation from CERN
on VGPUs:
In the table they are listing Quadro vDWS licenses. I assume we need these in order to use the cards? Also do we need something like Cyborg for this or is VGPU fully implemented in Nova?
Best Regards,
Oliver