I wonder what kind of device driver does GCE use with AMD, the new ROCm?
What about Power8 + NVLink harware? Does anybody know if the current NVIDIA GPUs, in particular the P100s are all on x86?
We will be working with both vendors to make sure we highlight which drivers work most reliably on our stack though (virtualization + GPUs is way too rare!). We want to work closely with both vendors to do the qualification, so you at least know what is known good.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
> If those bytes happen to be Debian 8 with some AMD driver that supports the 9300, awesome ;).
happens to support might alone not be enough given how much difficulties AMD has been having. I just hope that there will be enough customer demand for their SPFlop cruncher GPUs for interested parties -- including Google -- to pitch and contribute to their ROCm stack.