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The A100 PCIe card supports MIG configurations with up to seven GPU instances per A100 GPU.
The following table lists the supported A100 GPU Profiles:
GPU profile name | Profile name on VMs | Fraction of GPU memory | Fraction of GPU computes | Maximum number of instances available |
MIG 1g.5gb | grid_a100-1-5c | 1/8 | 1/7 | 7 |
MIG 2g.10gb | grid_a100-2-10c | 2/8 | 2/7 | 3 |
MIG 3g.20gb | grid_a100-3-20c | 4/8 | 3/7 | 2 |
MIG 4g.20gb | grid_a100-4-20c | 4/8 | 4/7 | 1 |
MIG 7g.40gb | grid_a100-7-40c | 8/8 | 7/7 | 1 |
Note: Similar profiles exist for A100 80GB GPU that is now being produced by NVIDIA.
A combination of profiles are created and assigned to the VMs. For more information about MIG and supported partitions, see NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU User Guide. For more information about supported A100 vGPU profiles, see the NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software Documentation.
An overview of the steps to set up and configure GPUs in a virtual environment is as follows:
Each of these areas is explained in detail below.