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OTC Public Images Release Notes April 2022

Linux

Section titled “Linux”

GPU NVIDIA + CUDA image based on Ubuntu 20.04 released

Section titled “GPU NVIDIA + CUDA image based on Ubuntu 20.04 released”

New NVIDA Ubuntu 20.04 image prepared with NVIDA and CUDA now is available as public image in OTC

  • Standard_Ubuntu_20.04_GPU_NV_latest

It is based on OTC public image Standard_Ubuntu_20.04_latest and extended by

  • NVIDIA driver
  • CUDA

Available for GPU flavors based on NVIDIA Tesla T4 graphic cards:

  • pi2

More about supported OTC flavors: https://imagefactory.otc.t-systems.com/flavor-images

***About NVIDA integration: ***

Prepared NVIDA drivers does not include NVIDIA licensed features.
Also licensed features can not unlocked by OTC team.
If licensed features are required, special nvidia-drivers needs to be installed by own.

Running nvidia driver can be checked by nvidia-smi tool:

$ nvidia-smi
Wed Apr 27 11:18:35 2022
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 470.103.01   Driver Version: 470.103.01   CUDA Version: 11.4     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  Tesla T4            Off  | 00000000:21:01.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   48C    P0    27W /  70W |      0MiB / 15109MiB |      0%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+


+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Running processes using GPU ressources are listed here as well, or can directly be seen by

$ nvidia-smi pmon
# gpu        pid  type    sm   mem   enc   dec   command
# Idx          #   C/G     %     %     %     %   name
    0     179642     C    99    87     -     -   blender
    0     179642     C    99    82     -     -   blender

Here we see some processes requesting GPU ressources by using CUDA integration (type ‘C’).

CentOS Stream 9 released

Section titled “CentOS Stream 9 released”

General Availability(GA) – Alma and Rocky Linux Images are General Available(GA) on OTC

Section titled “General Availability(GA) – Alma and Rocky Linux Images are General Available(GA) on OTC”

  • GA Image Name: Standard_Alma_8_latest & Standard_Rocky_8_latest

    • Alma and Rocky Linux will be GA on OTC from April 2022
    • Supported flavors - https://imagefactory.otc.t-systems.com/flavor-images
    • Alma and Rocky Linux GA images will be published in April 2022. “Preview” images will not be published however, “Preview” images would be available until May 2022.
    • It is recommended for existing customers to use the “Preview” Images with the Image ID.
    • Alma and Rocky Linux distribution information and Release Notes available at respective distribution links.

Windows

Section titled “Windows”

Updated Microsoft Windws Server Images with current Microsoft Windows Server Patches of April 2022, 13th

Section titled “Updated Microsoft Windws Server Images with current Microsoft Windows Server Patches of April 2022, 13th”

  • Windows Server 2012 R2

    • 2022-04 Servicing Stack Update for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB5012672)
    • 2022-04 Security Only Quality Update for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB5012639)
    • 2022-04 Security Only Update for .NET Framework 3.5, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8 for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64 (KB5012326)
    • 2022-04 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB5012670)

  • Windows Server 2016

    • 2022-04 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2016 for x64-based Systems (KB5012596)

  • Windows Server 2019

    • 2022-04 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5, 4.7.2 and 4.8 for Windows Server 2019 for x64 (KB5012328)
    • 2022-04 Cumulative Update for Windows Server 2019 for x64-based Systems (KB5012647)

  • Driver and tools of all Windows Server types

  • Cloudbase-Init: 1.1.3.dev16

  • KVM UVP Vmtools: 2.5.0.156

  • Intel(R) Network Connections Software Version 27.0, February 2, 2022

  • NVIDIA V100 / T4 driver: 472.98 (fixes CVE‑2022‑21815) for details see https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5312