Node groups with GPUs

In a Managed Service for Kubernetes cluster, you can create node groups with graphics accelerators (GPUs). A node is created from an image of a GPU-compatible VM with NVIDIA drivers and CUDA libraries installed for GPU acceleration.

PrerequisitesPrerequisites

• A cloud must have a non-zero GPU quota.

  By default, a cloud has a zero quota for creating VMs with GPUs. You can request a quota increase in the management console. To do this, you need the quota-manager.requestOperator role or higher.

• You can create VMs based on Intel Broadwell with NVIDIA® Tesla® V100, Intel Cascade Lake with NVIDIA® Tesla® V100, and AMD EPYC™ with NVIDIA® Ampere® A100 in the ru-central1-a and ru-central1-b availability zones.

  When selecting these platforms, the node group must reside in one or both of the specified availability zones.

PricingPricing

To run node groups with GPUs, you need a Managed Service for Kubernetes cluster, a VM with a GPU, and traffic. Therefore, billing includes the following:

• Managed Service for Kubernetes master usage is charged according to the Managed Service for Kubernetes pricing policy.
• VM with a GPU, according to the Yandex Compute Cloud pricing policy.
• Outgoing traffic, according to the Yandex Virtual Private Cloud pricing policy.

Use casesUse cases

• Using node groups with GPUs without pre-installed drivers