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MPS only works for the first GPU in a system. If you have a server with multiple GPUs, you can only share the first GPU between multiple jobs.</div>
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Sharding, on the other hand, works for all GPU's in system. Not that sharding is soft, Slurm will not monitor the actual GPU use, so jobs will have to respect the requested resources.</div>
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Sharding works great in our setup (3 servers with 8, 6 and 4 Nvidia GPUs, respectively + a few smaller single GPU boxes). We mainly use 1 shard = 1GB of GPU memory, but other setups may be used.</div>
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Slurm 22.05 has a new thing called GPU sharding that allows a single GPU to be used by multiple jobs at once. As far as I understood the major difference with the MPS approach is that this should generic (not tied to NVidia technology).<br>
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Has anyone tried it out? Does it work well? Any caveats or downsides compared to MPS?<br>
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