Chapter 3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI hardware requirements


Various hardware accelerators require different requirements for serving and inferencing as well as installing, generating and training the granite-7b-starter model on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI.

The following charts show the hardware requirements for running the full InstructLab end-to-end workflow to customize the Granite student model. This includes: synthetic data generation (SDG), training, and evaluating a custom Granite model.

3.1.1. Bare metal

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Hardware vendorSupported accelerators (GPUs)Aggregate GPU memoryRecommended additional disk storage

NVIDIA

2xA100

4xA100

8xA100

160 GB

320 GB

640 GB

1 TB

NVIDIA

2xH100

4xH100

8xH100

160 GB

320 GB

640 GB

1 TB

NVIDIA

4xL40S

8xL40S

192 GB

384 GB

1 TB

3.1.2. Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Hardware vendorSupported accelerators (GPUs)Aggregate GPU MemoryAWS InstanceRecommended additional disk storage

NVIDIA

8xA100

640 GB

p4de.24xlarge

1 TB

NVIDIA

8xH100

640 GB

p5.48xlarge

1 TB

The following charts display the minimum hardware requirements for inference serving a model on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI.

3.2.1. Bare metal

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Hardware vendorSupported accelerators (GPUs)minimum Aggregate GPU memoryRecommended additional disk storage

NVIDIA

A100

80 GB

1 TB

NVIDIA

H100

80 GB

1 TB

NVIDIA

L40S

48 GB

1 TB

NVIDIA

L4

24 GB

1 TB

3.2.2. Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Hardware vendorSupported accelerators (GPUs)Minimum Aggregate GPU MemoryRecommended additional disk storage

NVIDIA

A100

80 GB

1 TB

NVIDIA

H100

80 GB

1 TB

NVIDIA

L40S

48 GB

1 TB

NVIDIA

L4

24 GB

1 TB

3.2.3. IBM cloud

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Hardware vendorSupported accelerators (GPUs)Minimum Aggregate GPU MemoryRecommended additional disk storage

NVIDIA

L40S

48 GB

1 TB

NVIDIA

L4

24 GB

1 TB

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