Release v1.44.1: Support for a3-ultragpu-8g VMs and GKE, Slurm clusters
Release notes v1.44.1
This release announces Toolkit support for the new A3 Ultra machine type from Google Cloud. This machine type includes 8 NVIDIA H200 GPUs each with dedicated CX-7 networking with RDMA support via RoCE.
The release includes 4 blueprints that maximize performance for the machine type:
- A simple Slurm blueprint provisioning A3 Ultra compute nodes with a shared Filestore /home
- A GKE blueprint that provisions an A3 Ultra compute node pool
- An advanced Slurm blueprint that additionally mounts a GCS bucket with performance-optimized caching settings for I/O and checkpointing.
- A blueprint that provisions A3 Ultra compute nodes as VM instances (no scheduler) with RDMA networking
Example solutions using NCCL are provided for blueprints running under a scheduler.