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by Eichhorn, Andreas

OTC Public Images Release Notes April 2022

Linux

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

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

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