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Installing and Using Metax GPU Components

This section provides guidance on installing the Metax metax-gpu-extensions and metax-operator components, as well as instructions for using Metax GPUs in both full-card and vGPU modes.

Prerequisites

  1. A prepared DCE 5.0 base environment.

Component Overview

DCE 5.0 ships with two built-in Helm chart packages: metax-gpu-extensions and metax-operator. Choose which to install based on your usage scenario.

  1. metax-gpu-extensions: Contains the gpu-device and gpu-label components. When using the Metax-extensions solution, application container images must be built based on the MXMACA® base image. This solution only supports the full GPU usage scenario.
  2. metax-operator: Contains the gpu-device, gpu-label, driver-manager, container-runtime, and operator-controller components. With this approach, you can build application container images that do not include the MXMACA® SDK. It supports both full GPU and vGPU scenarios.

Installation Steps

metax-gpu-extensions

  1. In the left navigation bar, go to Container Management -> Cluster Management, and click the name of the target cluster.
  2. From the left navigation bar, click Helm Apps -> Helm Templates, then search for metax-gpu-extensions.

  3. When the component appears, start the installation.

    Install gpu-extensions

    After successful deployment, you can verify the resources on the nodes.

    Resource View

    The node list in the DCE 5.0 platform will display the Metax GPU label.

    Metax Node Label

metax-operator

Similar to installing gpu-extensions, search for metax-operator and start the installation once it is found.

Install metax-operator

Using the GPU

After installation, you can use the Metax GPU in workloads. When enabling GPU support, be sure to select Metax GPU as the GPU type.

Using GPU

To check GPU usage, enter the container and run mx-smi.

GPU Usage

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