2.4. NVIDIA GPU features for OpenShift Container Platform

NVIDIA AI Enterprise is an end-to-end, cloud-native suite of AI and data analytics software optimized, certified, and supported with NVIDIA-Certified systems.

NVIDIA AI Enterprise includes support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. The following installation methods are supported:

NVIDIA GPU Feature Discovery for Kubernetes is a software component that enables you to automatically generate labels for the GPUs available on a node. GPU Feature Discovery uses node feature discovery (NFD) to perform this labeling.

The Node Feature Discovery Operator (NFD) manages the discovery of hardware features and configurations in an OpenShift Container Platform cluster by labeling nodes with hardware-specific information. NFD labels the host with node-specific attributes, such as PCI cards, kernel, OS version, and so on.

You can find the NFD Operator in the Operator Hub by searching for “Node Feature Discovery”.

Up until this point, the GPU Operator only provisioned worker nodes to run GPU-accelerated containers. Now, the GPU Operator can also be used to provision worker nodes for running GPU-accelerated virtual machines (VMs).

You can configure the GPU Operator to deploy different software components to worker nodes depending on which GPU workload is configured to run on those nodes.