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General

We are pleased to announce the release of the project Intel Technology Enabling for OpenShift version 1.0.0.

The Intel Technology Enabling for OpenShift project provides Intel Data Center hardware features provisioning technologies with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP). The technology to deploy and manage the End-to-End (E2E) solutions as well as the related reference workloads for these features are also included in the project.

The project source code is maintained in the Intel Technology Enabling for OpenShift Repo.

The 1.0.0 document is published at Intel Technology Enabling for OpenShift Repo Readme.

The related certified images for RHOCP are published in Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog.

What’s New in Version 1.0.0

Intel Technology Enabling for OpenShift version 1.0.0 release provides the following solutions with RHOCP-4.12.

  • Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series provisioning
  • Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX) provisioning
  • Intel AI inference E2E solution based on
    • Intel® OpenVINO™ technology
    • Red Hat OpenShift Data Science (RHODS)
    • Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series provisioning

You can follow the readme and use below images to setup these solutions:

Features Description

1. Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series provisioning

The Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series is flexible, robust, and the industry's most open GPU solution for the intelligent visual cloud. The GPU supports a diverse range of workloads in the industry starting with media streaming and cloud gaming, followed by support for AI visual inference and virtual desktop Infrastructure workloads. It supports an open, standards-based software stack optimized for density and quality with critical server capabilities for high reliability, availability, and scalability. This helps reduce the need for data centers to use disparate solutions and manage heterogenous or proprietary environments.

To provision Intel Data Center GPU cards on RHOCP, use the Kernel Module Management (KMM) Operator to manage the Intel Data Center GPU driver container image. Intel Device Plugins Operator is used to manage the GPU device plugin. The device plugin advertises the GPU card resources to the cluster and allows workloads to use the resource.

2. Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) provisioning

Intel SGX offers hardware-based memory encryption that isolates specific application code and data in memory. Intel SGX allows user-level code to allocate private regions of memory, called enclaves, which are designed to be protected from processes running at higher privilege levels.

Intel Device Plugins Operator is used to manage the Intel SGX device plugin. The device plugin advertises the Intel SGX resources to the cluster and allows workloads to use the Intel SGX resources.

3. Intel AI Inference end-to-end solution

Intel AI inference end-to-end solution for RHOCP is built upon Intel Date Center GPU Flex Series provisioning and Intel® Xeon® processors. The two following AI inference modes can be used to verify the provisioning solution:

  • Interactive Mode
    Open Data Hub (ODH) and Red Hat OpenShift Data Science (RHODS) provide OpenVINO toolkit- based Jupiter Notebooks to help users interactively debug the inferencing applications or optimize the models with OCP using Intel Data Center GPU cards and Intel Xeon processors.
  • Deployment Mode
    OpenVINO Toolkit Operator for OpenShift and Kubernetes provides the OpenVINO Model Server (OVMS) for users to deploy their inferencing workload using Intel Data Center GPU cards and Intel Xeon processors on a RHOCP cluster in a cloud or edge environment.
     

Release contacts

Intel Business Contact:
[email protected]

Engineering Manager:
[email protected]

Release Support Contact:
[email protected]
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