GVM Service

New GPU cluster features with Ada Lovelace (2024) architecture NVIDIA cards model L40S and RTX 6000Ada has been established, with a total of 112 GPU cards. The GPU-enabled Virtual Machine (GVM) service is similar to the Azure and AWS Cloud Instance services, except that UBDA provide a more prominent direct pass-through GPU card, which means that these GPU cards are NOT virtualized but 100% reserved and owned by the dedicated GVM users.

Upon request, UBDA will provision GPU-enabled VMs for PolyU users (staff/students/external-guests), the maximum number of GPU cards in each VM is 8 at the moment. Users can RDP/SSH to their remote instance using their PolyU NetID and Net Password. They are configured as Linux Superuser and can therefore sudo install their own software/libraries, and highly customized their applications in GVM environment.

The following are illustrative configurations for selection:

Package	No. of vCPU cores	No. of GPU cards	vRAM Size (GiB)	OS-Disk Size (GiB)	GPU Card Model
1	6	1	64	100	NVIDIA L40S 48GB or RTX-6000Ada 48GB
2	8	2	128	100
3	10	4	256	100
4	12	6	256	100
5	16	8	256	100

Usually, the GVM bookings has to be renewed every 2-4 weeks, and based on the demand, UBDA reserves the right to allocate resources to others as needed. However, users can still raise request a longer usage term, say for 6-month project, by filling out a special request form or by email.

For more information, please contact with our scientific officer Dillian Wong (dillian.wong@polyu.edu.hk)