Red Hat, NVIDIA Align on Open Source Solutions to Fuel Emerging Workloads
Red Hat’s leading Linux and Kubernetes platforms now available on
NVIDIA® DGX-1™ systems, companies extend open
source community collaboration to help power new workloads like
artificial intelligence
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced it is collaborating with NVIDIA to bring a
new wave of open innovation around emerging workloads like artificial
intelligence (AI), deep learning and data science to enterprise
datacenters around the world. Driving this effort is the certification
of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux, on NVIDIA® DGX-1™ systems. This certification provides a
foundation for the rest of the Red Hat portfolio, including Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform, to be deployed and jointly supported on
NVIDIA’s AI supercomputers.
AI is often looked at as an enabling technology for enterprises seeking
to gain a competitive edge and market differentiation through digital
transformation. Research firm Ovum highlights the growing interest in
AI, stating that, “The proportion of enterprises with active interest in
AI initiatives (i.e., planning, trialing, or deploying) shifted from 62%
last year to 77% this year [2018].”
As NVIDIA DGX-1 systems enter the datacenter to provide powerful AI
platforms, IT teams will often want to manage and maintain these systems
within their existing operations, which frequently are Red Hat
Enterprise Linux-based. The ability to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux on
NVIDIA DGX-1 hardware provides not only a familiar control plane and
SELinux-secured user environment for IT teams to weave into their
existing workflows, but can also serve as a catalyst to drive further
innovation with AI and deep learning.
Enterprises across many industries, including those in the public
sector, oil and gas, financial services and more, will now be able to
more effectively integrate NVIDIA architecture into existing
infrastructure environments with Red Hat Enterprise Linux acting as the
common “bridge.” In support of greater flexibility across enterprise
environments, current Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers will be able to
use existing subscriptions on NVIDIA DGX-1 systems, backed by both Red
Hat and NVIDIA. Additionally, organizations using Red Hat Enterprise
Linux on NVIDIA DGX-1 systems will also have a foundation for the
industry’s most comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes offering in Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform, extending cloud-native support to emerging
workloads.
ISVs can move existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux-certified applications
to NVIDIA’s new class of systems with little-to-no changes, gaining
easier access to advanced AI and deep learning capabilities to support
more intelligent workloads.
In the realm of high-performance computing, Red Hat and NVIDIA deliver
technologies and expertise to fuel two of the world’s fastest
supercomputers, Summit
and Sierra.
As part of a broader group of industry leaders, Red Hat helped bring
both of these systems online providing a model not only for
next-generation high-performance computing (HPC) in
performance-sensitive environments but also for the enterprise
datacenter of the future.
Beyond Red Hat Enterprise Linux certified and supported on NVIDIA DGX
systems, the companies intend to collaborate on broader open source
initiatives, including:
- NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC) containers on Red Hat OpenShift - Red
Hat and NVIDIA plan to deliver NGC containers that provide users with
GPU-optimized software tools for AI and HPC based on Red Hat
technologies, enabling mutual customers to take full advantage of
NVIDIA GPUs.
- Heterogeneous memory management (HMM) - Red Hat and NVIDIA plan
to continue upstream development of the heterogeneous memory
management (HMM) feature. This kernel feature allows devices to access
and mirror the content of a system’s memory into their own, enabling
significant performance improvements for applications using GPUs.
Red Hat at GTC DC
To learn more about how Red Hat and NVIDIA align on open source
solutions to fuel emerging workloads, visit Red Hat (booth #44) at the
GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Washington, D.C., from October 23-24,
2018. At the event, Red Hat and NVIDIA will also jointly present a “Best
practices for deploying Red Hat platforms on DGX systems in datacenters”
on Tuesday, October 23, 3:30PM - 4:20PM.
Supporting Quotes
Chris Wright, CTO, Red Hat
“The growing interest in performance-sensitive workloads, like AI and
machine learning, requires a different approach to enterprise computing,
a need that NVIDIA is already helping to address at the architectural
level with NVIDIA DGX-1. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform, Red Hat is adding enterprise-ready
software innovation to NVIDIA’s powerful hardware, helping enterprises
to drive emerging workloads while retaining the stability, reliability
and familiarity that they have come to expect of their production
systems.”
Charlie Boyle, senior director, DGX Systems, NVIDIA
“NVIDIA DGX systems combined with NVIDIA-optimized AI software provide a
powerful combination of performance, productivity and value to data
science workflows from desk-side to datacenter. With the certification
of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on DGX-1, we’re enabling enterprise IT to
meet the growing demand of customers who expect enterprise support at
all layers of the software stack, without inhibiting effortless AI
exploration.”
Bronis Supinski, chief technology officer, Livermore Computing; head
of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Advanced Technology systems
“Red Hat Enterprise Linux’s enablement of NVIDIA GPUs on our Sierra
supercomputer provides commonality across our systems, greatly
facilitating our users’ ability to exploit the world's third fastest
computer. Since we use Red Hat Enterprise Linux as part of our software
stack on our commodity technology systems, that GPU enablement reduces
the effort required to move applications to Sierra, a capability that we
anticipate will help benefit other GPU-based systems, such as DGX-1.”
Charles Onstott, CTO, SAIC
“Leveraging our Innovation Factory, and our key collaboration with Red
Hat and NVIDIA, SAIC has demonstrated agility and collaboration with
rapid testing and integration of elements of the stack deployed on GPU
to optimize the performance of our analytic engine. Our time to design,
deploy and demonstrate was reduced to weeks and will continue to iterate
in a true DevOps fashion.”
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