The Lovelace-2024 GPU cluster (UBDA-Lovelace) features with Ada Lovelace (2024) architecture NVIDIA cards model L40S and RTX 6000Ada has been established in 2024, with a total of 222 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.
UBDA-Lovelace GPU cluster was migrated to the latest NVMe that backends read/write speeds of up 7,400/6,400 MB/s over dual 40 Gbps Ethernet networks in 2025. Additionally, each GVM can be embedded with direct pass-through local NVMe to further elevate the I/O speeds, enabling fast data caching for crucial modelling tasks. Users can thus process data from the GVMs’ local RAM to local NVMe (all within a single host server) without going through the Ethernet network, the fastest I/O among other VM cloud topologies.
Upon request, UCAIC 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:
