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The integration of NVIDIA RAPIDS into the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) provides transparent GPU acceleration of data analytics workloads using Apache Spark. This documentation describes the integration and suggested reference architectures for deployment.

This documentation should be of interest to cluster admins and support personnel of enterprise GPU deployments. It includes monitoring and management tools and application programming interfaces (APIs), in-field diagnostics and health monitoring, and cluster setup and deployment.

A simulation platform that allows users to model data center deployments with full software functionality, creating a digital twin. Transform and streamline network operations by simulating, validating, and automating changes and updates.

NVIDIA Base Command Manager streamlines cluster provisioning, workload management, and infrastructure monitoring. It provides all the tools you need to deploy and manage an AI data center. NVIDIA Base Command Manager Essentials comprises the features of NVIDIA Base Command Manager that are certified for use with NVIDIA AI Enterprise.

NVIDIA Base OS implements the stable and fully qualified operating systems for running AI, machine learning, and analytics applications on the DGX platform. It includes system-specific configurations, drivers, and diagnostic and monitoring tools and is available for Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Rocky Linux.

NVIDIA Bright Cluster Manager offers fast deployment and end-to-end management for heterogeneous HPC and AI server clusters at the edge, in the data center and in multi/hybrid-cloud environments. It automates provisioning and administration for clusters ranging in size from a single node to hundreds of thousands, supports CPU-based and NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems, and orchestration with Kubernetes.

NVIDIA Capture SDK (formerly GRID SDK) enables developers to easily and efficiently capture, and optionally encode, the display content.

NVIDIA’s program that enables enterprises to confidently deploy hardware solutions that optimally run accelerated workloads—from desktop to data center to edge.

NVIDIA cloud-native technologies enable developers to build and run GPU-accelerated containers using Docker and Kubernetes.

Compute Sanitizer is a functional correctness checking suite included in the CUDA toolkit. This suite contains multiple tools that can perform different type of checks. The memcheck tool is capable of precisely detecting and attributing out of bounds and misaligned memory access errors in CUDA applications. The tool can also report hardware exceptions encountered by the GPU. The racecheck tool can report shared memory data access hazards that can cause data races. The initcheck tool can report cases where the GPU performs uninitialized accesses to global memory. The synccheck tool can report cases where the application is attempting invalid usages of synchronization primitives. This document describes the usage of these tools.

NVIDIA Data Center GPU drivers are used in Data Center GPU enterprise deployments for AI, HPC, and accelerated computing workloads. Documentation includes release notes, supported platforms, and cluster setup and deployment.

NVIDIA Data Center GPU Manager (DCGM) is a suite of tools for managing and monitoring NVIDIA Data Center GPUs in cluster environments.

Deployment and management guides for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, an AI data center infrastructure platform that enables IT to deliver performance—without compromise—for every user and workload. DGX SuperPOD offers leadership-class accelerated infrastructure and agile, scalable performance for the most challenging AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, with industry-proven results.

System documentation for the DGX AI supercomputers that deliver world-class performance for large generative AI and mainstream AI workloads.

The NVIDIA EGX platform delivers the power of accelerated AI computing to the edge with a cloud-native software stack (EGX stack), a range of validated servers and devices, Helm charts, and partners who offer EGX through their products and services.

The GeForce NOW Developer Platform is an SDK and toolset empowering integration of, interaction with, and testing on the NVIDIA cloud gaming service.

NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) enables the fastest data path between GPU memory and storage by avoiding copies to and from system memory, thereby increasing storage input/output (IO) bandwidth and decreasing latency and CPU utilization.

Grace is NVIDIA’s first datacenter CPU. Comprising 72 high-performance Arm v9 cores and featuring the NVIDIA-proprietary Scalable Coherency Fabric (SCF) network-on-chip for incredible core-to-core communication, memory bandwidth and GPU I/O capabilities, Grace provides a high-performance compute foundation in a low-power system-on-chip.

NVIDIA LaunchPad is a free program that provides users short-term access to a large catalog of hands-on labs. Now enterprises and organizations can immediately tap into the necessary hardware and software stacks to experience end-to-end solution workflows in the areas of AI, data science, 3D design collaboration and simulation, and more.

NVIDIA® License System is used to serve a pool of floating licenses to NVIDIA licensed products. The NVIDIA License System is configured with licenses obtained from the NVIDIA Licensing Portal.

NVIDIA MAGNUM IO™ software development kit (SDK) enables developers to remove input/output (IO) bottlenecks in AI, high performance computing (HPC), data science, and visualization applications, reducing the end-to-end time of their workflows. Magnum IO covers all aspects of data movement between CPUs, GPUsns, DPUs, and storage subsystems in virtualized, containerized, and bare-metal environments.

The NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL) is a library of multi-GPU collective communication primitives that are topology-aware and can be easily integrated into applications. Collective communication algorithms employ many processors working in concert to aggregate data. NCCL is not a full-blown parallel programming framework; rather, it’s a library focused on accelerating collective communication primitives.

NVIDIA NGC is the hub for GPU-optimized software for deep learning, machine learning, and HPC that provides containers, models, model scripts, and industry solutions so data scientists, developers and researchers can focus on building solutions and gathering insights faster.

NVIDIA NVSHMEM is an NVIDIA based “shared memory” library that provides an easy-to-use CPU-side interface to allocate pinned memory that is symmetrically distributed across a cluster of NVIDIA GPUs.

NVIDIA Topology-Aware GPU Selection (NVTAGS) intelligently and automatically assigns GPUs to MPI processes, which reduces overall GPU-to-GPU communication time for Message Passing Interface (MPI) applications.

NVIDIA System Management is a software framework for monitoring server nodes, such as NVIDIA DGX servers, in a data center.

NVIDIA® TensorRT™ is an SDK for high-performance deep learning inference. It is designed to work in a complementary fashion with training frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and MXNet. It focuses specifically on running an already-trained network quickly and efficiently on NVIDIA hardware.

Protecting sensitive and proprietary information using strong hardware-based security.

NVIDIA LaunchPad is a free program that provides users short-term access to a large catalog of hands-on labs. Now enterprises and organizations can immediately tap into the necessary hardware and software stacks to experience end-to-end solution workflows in the areas of AI, data science, 3D design collaboration and simulation, and more.

The GeForce NOW Developer Platform is an SDK and toolset empowering integration of, interaction with, and testing on the NVIDIA cloud gaming service.

NVIDIA Data Center GPU Manager (DCGM) is a suite of tools for managing and monitoring NVIDIA Data Center GPUs in cluster environments.

NVIDIA MAGNUM IO™ software development kit (SDK) enables developers to remove input/output (IO) bottlenecks in AI, high performance computing (HPC), data science, and visualization applications, reducing the end-to-end time of their workflows. Magnum IO covers all aspects of data movement between CPUs, GPUsns, DPUs, and storage subsystems in virtualized, containerized, and bare-metal environments.

Protecting sensitive and proprietary information using strong hardware-based security.

The integration of NVIDIA RAPIDS into the Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) provides transparent GPU acceleration of data analytics workloads using Apache Spark. This documentation describes the integration and suggested reference architectures for deployment.

NVIDIA’s program that enables enterprises to confidently deploy hardware solutions that optimally run accelerated workloads—from desktop to data center to edge.

NVIDIA® License System is used to serve a pool of floating licenses to NVIDIA licensed products. The NVIDIA License System is configured with licenses obtained from the NVIDIA Licensing Portal.

NVIDIA Base OS implements the stable and fully qualified operating systems for running AI, machine learning, and analytics applications on the DGX platform. It includes system-specific configurations, drivers, and diagnostic and monitoring tools and is available for Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Rocky Linux.

NVIDIA Topology-Aware GPU Selection (NVTAGS) intelligently and automatically assigns GPUs to MPI processes, which reduces overall GPU-to-GPU communication time for Message Passing Interface (MPI) applications.

System documentation for the DGX AI supercomputers that deliver world-class performance for large generative AI and mainstream AI workloads.

NVIDIA Capture SDK (formerly GRID SDK) enables developers to easily and efficiently capture, and optionally encode, the display content.

NVIDIA NVSHMEM is an NVIDIA based “shared memory” library that provides an easy-to-use CPU-side interface to allocate pinned memory that is symmetrically distributed across a cluster of NVIDIA GPUs.

NVIDIA Bright Cluster Manager offers fast deployment and end-to-end management for heterogeneous HPC and AI server clusters at the edge, in the data center and in multi/hybrid-cloud environments. It automates provisioning and administration for clusters ranging in size from a single node to hundreds of thousands, supports CPU-based and NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems, and orchestration with Kubernetes.

Grace is NVIDIA’s first datacenter CPU. Comprising 72 high-performance Arm v9 cores and featuring the NVIDIA-proprietary Scalable Coherency Fabric (SCF) network-on-chip for incredible core-to-core communication, memory bandwidth and GPU I/O capabilities, Grace provides a high-performance compute foundation in a low-power system-on-chip.

NVIDIA Base Command Manager streamlines cluster provisioning, workload management, and infrastructure monitoring. It provides all the tools you need to deploy and manage an AI data center. NVIDIA Base Command Manager Essentials comprises the features of NVIDIA Base Command Manager that are certified for use with NVIDIA AI Enterprise.

Compute Sanitizer is a functional correctness checking suite included in the CUDA toolkit. This suite contains multiple tools that can perform different type of checks. The memcheck tool is capable of precisely detecting and attributing out of bounds and misaligned memory access errors in CUDA applications. The tool can also report hardware exceptions encountered by the GPU. The racecheck tool can report shared memory data access hazards that can cause data races. The initcheck tool can report cases where the GPU performs uninitialized accesses to global memory. The synccheck tool can report cases where the application is attempting invalid usages of synchronization primitives. This document describes the usage of these tools.

NVIDIA GPUDirect Storage (GDS) enables the fastest data path between GPU memory and storage by avoiding copies to and from system memory, thereby increasing storage input/output (IO) bandwidth and decreasing latency and CPU utilization.

The NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL) is a library of multi-GPU collective communication primitives that are topology-aware and can be easily integrated into applications. Collective communication algorithms employ many processors working in concert to aggregate data. NCCL is not a full-blown parallel programming framework; rather, it’s a library focused on accelerating collective communication primitives.

NVIDIA Data Center GPU drivers are used in Data Center GPU enterprise deployments for AI, HPC, and accelerated computing workloads. Documentation includes release notes, supported platforms, and cluster setup and deployment.

A simulation platform that allows users to model data center deployments with full software functionality, creating a digital twin. Transform and streamline network operations by simulating, validating, and automating changes and updates.

NVIDIA cloud-native technologies enable developers to build and run GPU-accelerated containers using Docker and Kubernetes.

NVIDIA NGC is the hub for GPU-optimized software for deep learning, machine learning, and HPC that provides containers, models, model scripts, and industry solutions so data scientists, developers and researchers can focus on building solutions and gathering insights faster.

NVIDIA® TensorRT™ is an SDK for high-performance deep learning inference. It is designed to work in a complementary fashion with training frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and MXNet. It focuses specifically on running an already-trained network quickly and efficiently on NVIDIA hardware.

NVIDIA System Management is a software framework for monitoring server nodes, such as NVIDIA DGX servers, in a data center.

Deployment and management guides for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, an AI data center infrastructure platform that enables IT to deliver performance—without compromise—for every user and workload. DGX SuperPOD offers leadership-class accelerated infrastructure and agile, scalable performance for the most challenging AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, with industry-proven results.

This documentation should be of interest to cluster admins and support personnel of enterprise GPU deployments. It includes monitoring and management tools and application programming interfaces (APIs), in-field diagnostics and health monitoring, and cluster setup and deployment.

The NVIDIA EGX platform delivers the power of accelerated AI computing to the edge with a cloud-native software stack (EGX stack), a range of validated servers and devices, Helm charts, and partners who offer EGX through their products and services.