15 posts tagged with "volcano"

On January 9, 2024, UTC+8, Volcano version v1.8.2 was officially released. This version added the following new features:

As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies advance and large language models (LLMs) grow more popular, the demand for AI compute has been booming. This has generated huge demand for high-performance scheduling for the AI and for hardware like AI chips.

Volcano 1.7.0 is now available with the following new features:

• enhanced plugin for PyTorch Jobs
• Ray on Volcano
• enhanced scheduling for general Kubernetes services
• multi-architecture images of Volcano
• optimized queue status info

Volcano is the industry-first cloud native batch computing project. Open-sourced at KubeCon Shanghai in June 2019, it became an official CNCF project in April 2020. In April 2022, Volcano was promoted to a CNCF incubating project. By now, more than 490 global developers have committed code to the project. The community is seeing growing popularity among developers, partners, and users.

This article was firstly released at Container Cube on September 6th, 2021, refer to Volcano v1.4.0-Beta发布，支持NUMA-Aware等多个重要特性

Volcano, CNCF's first batch computing project, is now available with a new version, v1.4 (Beta). This version includes multiple important features, such as resource ratio-based partitions on GPU nodes, NUMA-aware, mixed deployment of multiple schedulers, and greatly improved stability.

The easiest way to deploy Volcano is using Helm charts.

Preparation​

Clone the repository to a local path:

# mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/volcano.sh/
# cd $GOPATH/src/volcano.sh/
# git clone https://github.com/volcano-sh/volcano.git

1. Volcano Images​

Official images are available on DockerHub. You can also build local images by running the following command:

cd $GOPATH/src/volcano.sh/volcano
make images
## Verify your images.
# docker images
REPOSITORY                 TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
volcanosh/vk-admission     latest              a83338506638        8 seconds ago       41.4MB
volcanosh/vk-scheduler     latest              faa3c2a25ac3        9 seconds ago       49.6MB
volcanosh/vk-controllers   latest              7b11606ebfb8        10 seconds ago      44.2MB

NOTE: Ensure that the images are correctly loaded to your Kubernetes cluster. For example, if you are using kind luster, run the kind load docker-image <image-name>:<tag> command for each image.

2. Helm Charts​