[Openstack-operators] state of gpu processing / passthrough

Joe Topjian joe at topjian.net
Thu Oct 16 18:24:41 UTC 2014


Hi Simon,

Cool - thanks for the info. :)

If anyone has more information about the state on libvirt/kvm, that'd be
greatly appreciated, too.

Thanks,
Joe

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Simon Pasquier <spasquier at mirantis.com>
wrote:

> Hello Joe,
>
> Yes GPU passthrough is implemented with Xen [1] and it works with NVIDIA.
> I've copied Guillaume that developed and tested the feature for the XLcloud
> project, he may be able to provide more details. Bob Ball from Citrix even
> made a blog post about it [2].
>
> I know that at the time being, Guillaume had difficulties to do GPU
> passthrough with NVIDIA cards and libvirt/KVM. This may have changed though.
>
> BR,
> Simon
>
> [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/pci-passthrough-xenapi
> [2]
> http://blogs.citrix.com/2014/03/06/hpc-cloud-enablement-using-xenserver-openstack-and-nvidia-grid-gpus-xlcloud/
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Joe Topjian <joe at topjian.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I did a standard google search and got a bunch of wiki pages, but I'm not
>> sure if they are stale.
>>
>> Does anyone know what the state of GPU processing is in OpenStack? I
>> could have swore I read it was available for Xen, but what about KVM?
>>
>> Is anyone doing it? If so, what hardware are you using?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joe
>>
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