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The VPU device plugin supports below cards:
Intel VCAC-A. This card has:
- 1 Intel Core i3-7100U processor
- 12 MyriadX VPUs
- 8GB DDR4 memory
- PCIe interface to Xeon E3/E5 server
Intel Mustang V100. This card has:
- 8 MyriadX VPUs
- PCIe interface to 6th+ Generation Core PC or Xeon E3/E5 server
Gen 3 Intel® Movidius™ VPU HDDL VE3 This card has:
- 3 Intel® Movidius Gen 3 Intel® Movidius™ VPU SoCs
Intel® Movidius™ S VPU This card has:
- 6 Intel® Movidius Gen 3 Intel® Movidius™ VPU SoCs
Note: This device plugin need HDDL daemon service to be running either natively or from a container. To get VCAC-A or Mustang card running hddl, please refer to: https://github.com/OpenVisualCloud/Dockerfiles/blob/master/VCAC-A/script/setup_hddl.sh
The following sections detail how to use the VPU device plugin.
Pre-built images of this component are available on the Docker hub. These images are automatically built and uploaded to the hub from the latest main branch of this repository.
Release tagged images of the components are also available on the Docker hub, tagged with their
release version numbers in the format x.y.z
, corresponding to the branches and releases in this
repository. Thus the easiest way to deploy the plugin in your cluster is to run this command
$ kubectl apply -k https://github.com/intel/intel-device-plugins-for-kubernetes/deployments/vpu_plugin?ref=<RELEASE_VERSION>
daemonset.apps/intel-vpu-plugin created
Where <RELEASE_VERSION>
needs to be substituted with the desired release tag or main
to get devel
images.
For xlink device, deploy DaemonSet as
$ kubectl apply -k https://github.com/intel/intel-device-plugins-for-kubernetes/deployments/vpu_plugin/overlays/xlink
daemonset.apps/intel-vpu-plugin created
Nothing else is needed. See the development guide for details if you want to deploy a customized version of the plugin.
Note: It is also possible to run the VPU device plugin using a non-root user. To do this, the nodes' DAC rules must be configured to device plugin socket creation and kubelet registration. Furthermore, the deployments
securityContext
must be configured with appropriaterunAsUser/runAsGroup
.
You can verify the plugin has been registered with the expected nodes by searching for the relevant resource allocation status on the nodes:
$ kubectl get nodes -o=jsonpath="{range .items[*]}{.metadata.name}{'\n'}{' hddl: '}{.status.allocatable.vpu\.intel\.com/hddl}{'\n'}"
vcaanode00
hddl: 12
We can test the plugin is working by deploying the provided example OpenVINO image with HDDL plugin enabled.
$ cd $(go env GOPATH)/src/github.com/intel/intel-device-plugins-for-kubernetes
$ make ubuntu-demo-openvino
...
Successfully tagged intel/ubuntu-demo-openvino:devel
$ cd $(go env GOPATH)/src/github.com/intel/intel-device-plugins-for-kubernetes
$ kubectl apply -f demo/intelvpu-job.yaml
job.batch/intelvpu-demo-job created
$ kubectl get pods | fgrep intelvpu
# substitute the 'xxxxx' below for the pod name listed in the above
$ kubectl logs intelvpu-demo-job-xxxxx
+ export HDDL_INSTALL_DIR=/root/hddl
+ HDDL_INSTALL_DIR=/root/hddl
+ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/root/inference_engine_samples_build/intel64/Release/lib/
+ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/root/inference_engine_samples_build/intel64/Release/lib/
+ /root/inference_engine_samples_build/intel64/Release/classification_sample_async -m /root/openvino_models/ir/FP16/classification/squeezenet/1.1/caffe/squeezenet1.1.xml -i /root/car.png -d HDDL
[ INFO ] InferenceEngine:
API version ............ 2.0
Build .................. custom_releases/2019/R2_f5827d4773ebbe727c9acac5f007f7d94dd4be4e
Description ....... API
[ INFO ] Parsing input parameters
[ INFO ] Parsing input parameters
[ INFO ] Files were added: 1
[ INFO ] /root/car.png
[ INFO ] Creating Inference Engine
HDDL
HDDLPlugin version ......... 2.0
Build ........... 27579
[ INFO ] Loading network files
[ INFO ] Preparing input blobs
[ WARNING ] Image is resized from (787, 259) to (227, 227)
[ INFO ] Batch size is 1
[ INFO ] Loading model to the device
[07:49:01.0427][6]I[ServiceStarter.cpp:40] Info: Waiting for HDDL Service getting ready ...
[07:49:01.0428][6]I[ServiceStarter.cpp:45] Info: Found HDDL Service is running.
[HDDLPlugin] [07:49:01.0429][6]I[HddlClient.cpp:256] Hddl api version: 2.2
[HDDLPlugin] [07:49:01.0429][6]I[HddlClient.cpp:259] Info: Create Dispatcher2.
[HDDLPlugin] [07:49:01.0432][10]I[Dispatcher2.cpp:148] Info: SenderRoutine starts.
[HDDLPlugin] [07:49:01.0432][6]I[HddlClient.cpp:270] Info: RegisterClient HDDLPlugin.
[HDDLPlugin] [07:49:01.0435][6]I[HddlClient.cpp:275] Client Id: 3
[ INFO ] Create infer request
[HDDLPlugin] [07:49:01.7235][6]I[HddlBlob.cpp:166] Info: HddlBlob initialize ion ...
[HDDLPlugin] [07:49:01.7237][6]I[HddlBlob.cpp:176] Info: HddlBlob initialize ion successfully.
[ INFO ] Start inference (10 asynchronous executions)
[ INFO ] Completed 1 async request execution
[ INFO ] Completed 2 async request execution
[ INFO ] Completed 3 async request execution
[ INFO ] Completed 4 async request execution
[ INFO ] Completed 5 async request execution
[ INFO ] Completed 6 async request execution
[ INFO ] Completed 7 async request execution
[ INFO ] Completed 8 async request execution
[ INFO ] Completed 9 async request execution
[ INFO ] Completed 10 async request execution
[ INFO ] Processing output blobs
Top 10 results:
Image /root/car.png
classid probability label
------- ----------- -----
817 0.8295898 sports car, sport car
511 0.0961304 convertible
479 0.0439453 car wheel
751 0.0101318 racer, race car, racing car
436 0.0074234 beach wagon, station wagon, wagon, estate car, beach waggon, station waggon, waggon
656 0.0042267 minivan
586 0.0029869 half track
717 0.0018148 pickup, pickup truck
864 0.0013924 tow truck, tow car, wrecker
581 0.0006595 grille, radiator grille
[HDDLPlugin] [07:49:01.9231][11]I[Dispatcher2.cpp:212] Info: Listen Thread wake up and to exit.
[HDDLPlugin] [07:49:01.9232][6]I[Dispatcher2.cpp:81] Info: Client dispatcher exit.
[HDDLPlugin] [07:49:01.9235][6]I[HddlClient.cpp:203] Info: Hddl client unregistered.
[ INFO ] Execution successful
[ INFO ] This sample is an API example, for any performance measurements please use the dedicated benchmark_app tool
If the pod did not successfully launch, possibly because it could not obtain the vpu HDDL
resource, it will be stuck in the Pending
status:
$ kubectl get pods
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
intelvpu-demo-job-xxxxx 0/1 Pending 0 8s
This can be verified by checking the Events of the pod:
$ kubectl describe pod intelvpu-demo-job-xxxxx
...
Events:
Type Reason Age From Message
---- ------ ---- ---- -------
Warning FailedScheduling <unknown> default-scheduler 0/1 nodes are available: 1 Insufficient vpu.intel.com/hddl.