Bringing the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 Online in OpenStack Flex
I'll be honest. When the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 first showed up on my radar, I wasn't sure what to make of it. It's not a traditional datacenter card and it's not a gaming card either. The R9700 is a 32 GB professional GPU that won't break the bank, and sits in a product category that didn't really exist eighteen months ago.
This week our team brought a pair of R9700 GPUs online in Rackspace OpenStack Flex; like any good story there was a bit of drama with servers, placement, shipping times, cables oddities, chassis crisis, and more; we had the making of a full feature length K-Drama with all the twists and turns. Once we got past the drama, parts were installed and powered on, the entire deployment took about ten minutes which is a testament to the power of Genestack's Kubernetes-native architecture and OpenStack's hardware-agnostic design.