NVIDIA is donating the NVIDIA Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) Driver for GPUs to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, the company said in an announcement at KubeCon Europe, moving the driver to community ownership under the Kubernetes project.
Kubernetes already runs the majority of enterprise artificial intelligence workloads, and NVIDIA says the donation aims to improve transparency, resource efficiency and scale for developers managing GPU-accelerated infrastructure on that platform.
The driver enables smarter GPU sharing with support for NVIDIA Multi-Process Service and NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU technologies, native multi-node interconnect with NVIDIA Multi-Node NVLink and configurations for NVIDIA Grace Blackwell systems. “NVIDIA’s deep collaboration with the Kubernetes and CNCF community to upstream the NVIDIA DRA Driver for GPUs marks a major milestone for open source Kubernetes and AI infrastructure,” said Chris Aniszczyk, chief technology officer of CNCF. NVIDIA also announced GPU support for Kata Containers to extend hardware acceleration into confidential containers for stronger workload isolation.
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NVIDIA outlined companion open source efforts and integrations: NVSentinel and AI Cluster Runtime from GTC, the NVIDIA NemoClaw reference stack, NVIDIA OpenShell runtime, and the KAI Scheduler, which has been onboarded as a CNCF Sandbox project. The company also said it is expanding the Dynamo ecosystem with Grove, an open source Kubernetes API that expresses complex inference systems as a single declarative resource, and continues work with partners including Amazon Web Services, Broadcom, Canonical, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Nutanix, Red Hat and SUSE.
Developers and organizations can begin using and contributing to the NVIDIA DRA Driver today, and NVIDIA is showing live demonstrations at its KubeCon booth and via related conference programming.
The recap
- NVIDIA donates DRA Driver for GPUs to the CNCF
- Driver supports NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU and Multi-Process Service
- Developers can begin using and contributing to DRA Driver today
