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<p>Dear All,</p>
<p>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:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.openstack.org/nova/zed/admin/virtual-gpu.html">https://docs.openstack.org/nova/zed/admin/virtual-gpu.html</a><br>
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explain quite well the general implementation.</p>
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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:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/776411/contributions/3345183/attachments/1851624/3039917/02_-_vGPUs_with_OpenStack_-_Accelerating_Science.pdf">https://indico.cern.ch/event/776411/contributions/3345183/attachments/1851624/3039917/02_-_vGPUs_with_OpenStack_-_Accelerating_Science.pdf</a></p>
<p>In the table they are listing <span style="left: 865.349px; top:
537.794px; font-size: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; transform:
scaleX(0.925058);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Quadro vDWS </span>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?</p>
<p>Best Regards,</p>
<p>Oliver<br>
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