Intel® Technology Enabling for OpenShift* version 1.2.1
We are thrilled to announce the release of Intel Technology Enabling for OpenShift version 1.2.1 for OpenShift 4.14.11+.
What’s new in version 1.2.1
- Fast GPU provisioning supported
With the prebuilt Intel Data Center GPU driver container images managed by the KMM Operator and Intel Data Center GPU bootless technology, provisioning of Intel GPUs is reduced from more than three minutes to less than one second for each node on OpenShift. This provisioning improvement enhances the Intel Data Center GPU scale-out performance and simplifies the scale-out and on-demand allocation of the GPU resources (see Fast-GPU-Provisioning-Technology). - Developer Preview Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series
- Bootless GPU provisioning, see issue 34
- Reduced driver container image size, see issue 33
- Previously released Intel features are now continuously verified with each new OpenShift release allowing for features to be always available.
- Intel Data Center GPU Driver for OpenShift is upgraded to v2.2.0.
- Includes the use of Red Hat OpenShift AI* v2.8.0
About this release
1.2.1 release includes the below General Available features:
- Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series provisioning
- Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX) provisioning
- Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) provisioning
- Intel AI inference E2E solution based on
- OpenVINO™ Operator that simplifies managing optimized deep learning inference at scale in OpenShift
- Red Hat OpenShift AI
- Intel Data Center GPU Flex Series provisioning
Developer Preview feature:
- Intel Data Center GPU Max Series provisioning