[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Integration of GPU with glusterfs

[Ashish Pandey]

Based on my understanding of GPU and CUDA programming, I think we should write some API"s which 
different translators can use. I just explored EC code where we are doing computation to encode and decode user data 
and found that it could be a better idea to provide API's. 

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Ashish 


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From: "Vijay Bellur" <vbellur at redhat.com> 
To: "Ashish Pandey" <aspandey at redhat.com> 
Cc: "gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org>, "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel at gluster.org> 
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 10:29:42 PM 
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] [Gluster-devel] Integration of GPU with glusterfs 



On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 12:06 AM, Ashish Pandey < aspandey at redhat.com > wrote: 




It is disappointing to see the limitation being put by Nvidia on low cost GPU usage on data centers. 
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/03/nvidia_server_gpus/ 

We thought of providing an option in glusterfs by which we can control if we want to use GPU or not. 
So, the concern of gluster eating out GPU's which could be used by others can be addressed. 





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. 

Do you have more details on the proposed implementation? 

Thanks, 
Vijay 


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Ashish 




From: "Jim Kinney" < jim.kinney at gmail.com > 
To: gluster-users at gluster.org , "Lindsay Mathieson" < lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com >, "Darrell Budic" < budic at onholyground.com >, "Gluster Users" < gluster-users at gluster.org > 
Cc: "Gluster Devel" < gluster-devel at gluster.org > 
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2018 6:00:25 PM 
Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Integration of GPU with glusterfs 



On January 11, 2018 10:58:28 PM EST, Lindsay Mathieson < lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com > wrote: 
>On 12/01/2018 3:14 AM, Darrell Budic wrote: 
>> It would also add physical resource requirements to future client 
>> deploys, requiring more than 1U for the server (most likely), and I’m 
> 
>> not likely to want to do this if I’m trying to optimize for client 
>> density, especially with the cost of GPUs today. 
> 
>Nvidia has banned their GPU's being used in Data Centers now to, I 
>imagine they are planning to add a licensing fee. 

Nvidia banned only the lower cost, home user versions of their GPU line from datacenters. 
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