Cyborg Support Matrix

Cyborg supports specific operations on VMs with attached accelerator resources, which are generally a subset of the full set of VM operations supported by Nova (nova-vm-ops).

In this release, these operations have a dependency on specific Nova patches (nova-patches). They can be expected to work in Cyborg only if and when these Nova patches get merged without significant changes. These operations are not supported in this release since the dependencies are not met.

VM Operations Expected to Work With Nova Dependencies

VM Operation	Command
VM creation	openstack server create
VM deletion	openstack server delete
Reboot within VM	ssh to VM and reboot in OS
Soft reboot	openstack server reboot --soft
Pause/Unpause	openstack server pause, openstack server unpause
Backup	openstack server backup create
Take a snapshot	openstack server image create
Lock/Unlock	openstack server lock, openstack server unlock
Rebuild/Evacuate	openstack server rebuild
Shelve/Unshelve	openstack server shelve, openstack server unshelve

Operations not listed here may or may not work.

Driver Support

The list of drivers available as part of the Cyborg distribution at the time of release can be found in: cyborg.accelerator.driver section of Cyborg’s setup.cfg

The following table provides additional information for individual drivers.

Driver Support

Driver Name	Supported Products	Description	Notes	Temporary Test Report
Fake Driver	None	A driver that creates a fake device with accelerator resources of type FPGA. Useful for exploring Cyborg without hardware and for Continuous Integration testing.	None	None
Intel FPGA OPAE Driver	Intel PAC	The driver for Intel FPGA devices with OPAE software stack.	Supports programming of FPGA bitstreams of type gbs.	None
Nvidia GPU driver	None	The driver for Nvidia GPUs.	None	None
Ascend AI Chip driver	None	The driver for Huawei’s Ascend AI chips.	None	None
Intel QAT Driver	Intel QuickAssist Technology Card	The driver for Intel QAT Cards.	None	Test results reported at Aug 2020. Please reference: Intel QAT Driver Test Report
Inspur FPGA Driver	None	The driver for Inspur FPGA Cards.	None	Test results reported at Aug 2020. Please reference: Inspur FPGA Driver Test Report
Intel NIC Driver	None	The driver for Intel NIC Cards.	None	Test results reported at Feb 2021. Please reference: Intel NIC Driver Test Report
Inspur NVMe SSD Driver	None	The driver for Inspur NVMe SSD DISK.	None	Test results reported at Feb 2021. Please reference: Inspur NVMe SSD Driver Test Report

Note

Temporary Test Report: This is a temporary test report, it is only valid for a short time, if you encounter problems, please contact the Cyborg team.