<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div>Based on my understanding of GPU and CUDA programming, I think we should write some API"s which <br></div><div>different translators can use. I just explored EC code where we are doing computation to encode and decode user data</div><div>and found that it could be a better idea to provide API's.<br></div><div><br></div><div>---<br></div><div>Ashish<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Vijay Bellur" <vbellur@redhat.com><br><b>To: </b>"Ashish Pandey" <aspandey@redhat.com><br><b>Cc: </b>"gluster-users" <gluster-users@gluster.org>, "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel@gluster.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, January 15, 2018 10:29:42 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] Integration of GPU with glusterfs<br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 12:06 AM, Ashish Pandey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aspandey@redhat.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:aspandey@redhat.com">aspandey@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><div><br></div><div>It is disappointing to see the limitation being put by Nvidia on low cost GPU usage on data centers.</div><div><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/03/nvidia_server_gpus/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/03/nvidia_server_gpus/">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/03/nvidia_server_gpus/</a><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><div>We thought of providing an option in glusterfs by which we can control if we want to use GPU or not.</div><div>So, the concern of gluster eating out GPU's which could be used by others can be addressed.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>It would be definitely be interesting to try this out. This limitation may change in the future and the higher end GPUs are still usable in data centers.</div><div><br></div><div>Do you have more details on the proposed implementation?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Vijay</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>---<br></div><div>Ashish<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="m_-3709572070167583098zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Jim Kinney" <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>><br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org">gluster-users@gluster.org</a>, "Lindsay Mathieson" <<a href="mailto:lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com">lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com</a>>, "Darrell Budic" <<a href="mailto:budic@onholyground.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:budic@onholyground.com">budic@onholyground.com</a>>, "Gluster Users" <<a href="mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org">gluster-users@gluster.org</a>><br><b>Cc: </b>"Gluster Devel" <<a href="mailto:gluster-devel@gluster.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:gluster-devel@gluster.org">gluster-devel@gluster.org</a>><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, January 12, 2018 6:00:25 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Integration of GPU with glusterfs<span class=""><span class=""><br></span></span><div><br></div><span class=""><span class=""><br></span></span><div><br></div><span class=""><span class="">On January 11, 2018 10:58:28 PM EST, Lindsay Mathieson <<a href="mailto:lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com">lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>On 12/01/2018 3:14 AM, Darrell Budic wrote:<br>>> It would also add physical resource requirements to future client <br>>> deploys, requiring more than 1U for the server (most likely), and I’m<br>><br>>> not likely to want to do this if I’m trying to optimize for client <br>>> density, especially with the cost of GPUs today.<br>><br>>Nvidia has banned their GPU's being used in Data Centers now to, I <br>>imagine they are planning to add a licensing fee.<br></span></span><div><br></div><span class=""><span class="">Nvidia banned only the lower cost, home user versions of their GPU line from datacenters. <br>><br>>-- <br>>Lindsay Mathieson<br>><br>>_______________________________________________<br>>Gluster-users mailing list<br>><a href="mailto:Gluster-users@gluster.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:Gluster-users@gluster.org">Gluster-users@gluster.org</a><br>><a href="http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users">http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users</a><br></span></span><div><br></div><span class="">-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. 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