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Daniel Margreiter's avatar
Daniel Margreiter
Copper Contributor
Jul 13, 2018

Use DDA to pass GPU to container

Dear community,   I want to pass a Quadro GPU to a container on a Windows Server host. What I want to change in our build infrastructure are idleing machines. We got Linux machines and Windows mac...
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Craig Wilhite's avatar
Craig Wilhite
Former Employee
Aug 09, 2018

Hey Daniel,

 

I appreciate your question. At this time, we do not support passing GPUs to Windows Server containers or Linux containers on Windows. You stated this would be used for running GPU-related tests; I am curious to know what your expectation would around how the GPU gets shared.

 

You called out DDA--would you want to give the GPU exclusively to a container, as DDA would imply? Would you rather share it amongst several containers? Share the GPU between the container in the host? Or even something else.

 

Also curious to know the % deployment of Windows Server containers vs Linux containers for these GPU test workloads. Assuming Linux containers on Windows could support GPU, would that be better for your use cases, do you have a 50/50 split between OS types, etc.

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