Red Hat Partners with NVIDIA on Container Platform for AI - Container Journal

Red Hat and NVIDIA this week announced a joint effort under which AI applications can be built using containers, which then are deployed on instances of Red Hat OpenShift that are running on supercomputers utilizing NVIDIA graphical processor units (GPUs). The Red Hat OpenShift platform, which is based on an instance of Kubernetes, then would be able to host AI applications that are much more manageable using containers. Instead of trying to maintain a massive monolithic AI application that is unwieldy to maintain and update, organizations will be able to update components of the AI application as they see fit. The announcement was made at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference. Ron Pacheco, director of product management for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), says the first step toward achieving this goal is deploying RHEL on NVIDIA DGX-1 hardware systems. After that, Red Hat and NVIDIA have pledged to make NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC) containers available on Red Hat OpenShift.