Enabling GPU features

Learn how to enable GPU features in IBM® Spectrum LSF.

Automatic GPU configuration
LSF automatically configures GPU resources, which allows your LSF jobs to use GPU resources by default.
Enabling jobs to use GPU resources
LSF jobs can specify GPU resource requirements in one statement.
Optimizing GPU resource metric collection
LSF optimizes resource metric collection to improve LSF performance.
Nvidia Data Center GPU Manager (DCGM) features
The Nvidia Data Center GPU Manager (DCGM) is a suite of data center management tools that allow you to manage and monitor GPU resources in an accelerated data center.
GPU access enforcement
LSF can enforce GPU access on systems that support the Linux cgroup devices subsystem. To enable GPU access through Linux cgroups, configure the LSB_RESOURCE_ENFORCE="gpu" parameter in the lsf.conf file. LSF creates devices to contain job processes if the job has GPU resource requirements so that the job processes cannot escape from the allocated GPUs. Each GPU job device includes only the GPUs that LSF distributes. Linux cgroup devices are only created for GPU jobs.
Decreasing GPU power consumption when a GPU is not in use
A GPU consumes significant power even when it idles. LSF provides configuration parameters to decrease the GPU power that is consumed if GPU is not in use within a specified time. By default, LSF does not power off a GPU even when it is idle.
Nvidia Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) features
Use the LSF_MANAGE_MIG parameter in the lsf.conf file to enable dynamic MIG scheduling.

Parent topic: GPU resources