[Labs-admin] Fwd: Re: Servers with GPUs

[Yuvi Panda]

I agree that it's a good fit for openstack / nova, but a really bad
fit for the labs and/or cloud teams :D

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Andrew Bogott <abogott at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 2/23/17 1:48 PM, Bryan Davis wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Andrew Bogott <abogott at wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2/23/17 12:30 PM, Yuvi Panda wrote:
>>>
>>> Do we have the human bandwidth to commit to doing this as a team? GPUs
>>> are fickle beasts.
>>>
>>> Noooo!  I'm not telling them 'we will do this' only 'this might be
>>> technically possible'
>>
>> This seems like a bad fit for Cloud. Providing co-location for
>> specialty hardware for a specific project is a lot of burden for us
>> and really doesn't give them any practice for eventual implementation
>> in production.
>
> Nova definitely /does/ support having different types of virt nodes, and
> scheduling certain VMs on certain hardware.  So, having virtnode with GPUs
> could just be an additional VM type offered by the cloud.
>
> As to how those VMs actually /talk/ to the GPUs... in theory this is a
> feature implemented in Nova but I haven't investigated it at all.
>
>>
>> Bryan
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