GPU virtualization for HPC in cloud computing

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Is it possible to use NVidia virtualization to create a cluster of VMs using GPU virtualization in cloud computing?
How could this be implemented ?

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http://www.gdaas.com/

maybe what you are looking for?

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Virtualisation is not necessary for this, there are plenty of examples of "cloud" clustered GPU implementations that can be accessed and utilised based on required resources.

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Check out http://fra.me/

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As JAson has said most HPC is done on physical. And there is plenty of reference material.

Why are you interested in virtualising? At the moment CUDA/OpenCL isn’t supported virtualised with vGPU which is an obstacle but if you read the comments on here: OpenCL and NVIDIA CUDA support for Citrix XenServer, XenDesktop and XenApp | Citrix Blogs there are some HPC folk who are looking at it for test/teaching and development. i.e. they don’t want to run actual massive HPC workloads where if virtualised pass-through might be an option but to develop them.

I got involved a while ago with this consortium https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2014/03/06/hpc-cloud-enablement-using-xenserver-openstack-and-nvidia-grid-gpus-xlcloud/ so people are definitely looking at this…

So why the virtualisation interest?
Rachel

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For experiment purposes