Re: [Openstack-operators] How are folks providing GPU instance types?

Finally circled back to this thread... Joe - those are great notes! On 12 May 2016 at 02:51, Joe Topjian wrote: > * I found that I didn't have to use EFI-based images. I wonder why that is? Yeah, we've never run into this as a requirement either. Peter - can you clarify?

Re: [Openstack-operators] How are folks providing GPU instance types?

Just wanted to add a few notes (I apologize for the brevity): * The wiki page is indeed the best source of information to get started. * I found that I didn't have to use EFI-based images. I wonder why that is? * PCI devices and IDs can be found by running the following on a compute node: $

Re: [Openstack-operators] How are folks providing GPU instance types?

Nordquist, Peter L writes: > You will also have to enable iommu on your hypervisors to have libvirt expose the capability to Nova for PCI > passthrough. I use Centos 7 and had to set 'iommu=pt intel_iommu=on' for my kernel parameters. Along with > this, you'll have to

Re: [Openstack-operators] How are folks providing GPU instance types?

being passed to the VM where EFI is much easier. [0]: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Pci_passthrough Peter Nordquist -Original Message- From: Jonathan Proulx [mailto:j...@csail.mit.edu] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 13:13 To: openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org Subject: [Openstack-op

[Openstack-operators] How are folks providing GPU instance types?

Hi All, Having trouble finding any current info on best practices for providing GPU instances. Most of what Google is feeding me is Grizzly or older. I'm currently on Kilo (Mitaka upgrade planned in 60-90 days) with Ubuntu14.04 and kvm hypervisor. Looking to add some NVidia GPUs but haven't