Difference between revisions of "GPUs in Red Cloud"
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When '''[[OpenStack#Launch_an_Instance|launching an instance]]''', you can use either the base [[Red_Cloud_Linux_Instances|Linux]] or [[Red_Cloud_Windows_Instances|Windows]] instances and install your own GPU libraries, or select CUDA source images such as (...), select a GPU-enabled flavor, and configure the instance as you would any other instance. | When '''[[OpenStack#Launch_an_Instance|launching an instance]]''', you can use either the base [[Red_Cloud_Linux_Instances|Linux]] or [[Red_Cloud_Windows_Instances|Windows]] instances and install your own GPU libraries, or select CUDA source images such as (...), select a GPU-enabled flavor, and configure the instance as you would any other instance. | ||
− | Once your instance is launched, you will have access to the GPU within the VM and can install software (pytorch, tensorflow) that will use the GPU. | + | Once your instance is launched, you will have access to the GPU within the VM and can install software (e.g., pytorch, tensorflow) that will use the GPU. |
For more information on GPU and CUDA computing, see the Cornell Virtual Workshop "'''[https://cvw.cac.cornell.edu/gpu/ Introduction to GPGPU and CUDA Programming: Overview]'''" | For more information on GPU and CUDA computing, see the Cornell Virtual Workshop "'''[https://cvw.cac.cornell.edu/gpu/ Introduction to GPGPU and CUDA Programming: Overview]'''" |
Revision as of 11:05, 24 August 2020
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Red Cloud supports GPU computing and has two different GPU instance flavors that allow for GPU computing on virtual machines (VMs). In order to use a GPU in Red Cloud, you will need to select a flavor of machine with a GPU. Currently Red Cloud instances feature Nvidia Tesla T4 and Nvidia Tesla V100 GPU accelerators in these flavors:
Flavor | CPUs | GPUs | RAM |
---|---|---|---|
c4.t1.m20 | 4 | 1 Nvidia Tesla T4 | 20 GB |
c14.g1.m60 | 14 | 1 Nvidia Tesla V100 | 60 GB |
Availability
As of this writing, there are 20 of the T4s and 4 of the V100s for use in Red Cloud VMs. You can obtain up-to-date GPU usage here to help you to determine if resources are available to start an instance. If you are new to Red Cloud you should review how to read this documentation before launching an instance, especially the section on accounting. Because Red Cloud does not have hyperthreading enabled, GPUs are not oversubscribed. This means when you create a GPU instance with a certain number of GPUs, you are reserving the physical hardware for the duration of the life of your instance unless it is shelved to free the resources. If the resources are not available when you attempt to start an instance - because someone else has reserved them - then you may receive an error that they cannot be created. Therefore, it is good to check availability before starting an instance, and also shelving instances when not in use.
Launching A GPU Instance
When launching an instance, you can use either the base Linux or Windows instances and install your own GPU libraries, or select CUDA source images such as (...), select a GPU-enabled flavor, and configure the instance as you would any other instance.
Once your instance is launched, you will have access to the GPU within the VM and can install software (e.g., pytorch, tensorflow) that will use the GPU.
For more information on GPU and CUDA computing, see the Cornell Virtual Workshop "Introduction to GPGPU and CUDA Programming: Overview"