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Runpod•9mo ago•
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👨💻 Aidan

Multi-Instance GPU Support on RunPod

Hey,

Last night, I was experimenting with RunPod for the first time, and tried to enable MIG via
nvidia-smi
nvidia-smi
- but it didn’t work. Instead, it threw an ‘insufficient permissions’ error.

This appears to be due to how virtualisation is implemented, providing a lack of hardware-level control within a pod.

I have tried the same thing on Vast.ai and received the same results, however they informed me that they do not officially support said functionality.

With all that, is there a way to get this to work on RunPod? MIG is mentioned in the following blog post: https://www.runpod.io/articles/rent/h100-sxm

Thank you for your help and time.
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