Don't know if you caught this on the main dev list.   — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Brian Schott" <brian.schott@nimbisservices.com> Date: Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] GPU passthrough support blueprints for OpenStack To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List" <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org>

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. ------------------------------------------------- Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.schott@nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Aug 14, 2013, at 6:03 AM, Bob Ball <bob.ball@citrix.com> wrote:

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Hi Brian,

Instead of specific GPU pass-through there are blueprints for generic PCI pass through at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/pci-passthrough-base - these are being worked on for Havana and we're hopeful they will get in (possibly libvirt only)

In terms of vGPU rather than whole-GPU pass through, the slides are correct that XenServer support is very nearly here: http://www.xenserver.org/discuss-virtualization/q-and-a/nvidia-vgpu-on-xense...

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.

As such, I think the integration should be very similar to PCI pass through above.

Bob

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-----Original Message----- From: Brian Schott [mailto:brian.schott@nimbisservices.com] Sent: 13 August 2013 23:07 To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Subject: [openstack-dev] GPU passthrough support blueprints for OpenStack

Are there more recent blueprints related to adding GPU pass-through support? All that I can find are some stale blueprints that I created around the Cactus timeframe (while wearing a different hat) that are pretty out of date.

I just heard a rumor that folks are doing Nvidia GRID K2 GPU passthrough with KVM successfully using linux 3.10.6 kernel with RHEL.

In addition, Lorin and I did some GPU passthrough testing back in the spring with GRID K2 on HyperV, libvirt+xen, and XenServer. Slides are here: http://www.slideshare.net/bfschott/nimbis-schott- openstackgpustatus20130618

The virtualization support for GPU-enabled virtual desktops and GPGPU seems to have stabilized this year for server deployments. How is this going to be supported in OpenStack?

Brian

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