Hardware
How to Add Huawei NPU Nodes to a Kubernetes Cluster
· β˜• 10 min read
1. Disk Handling 1.1 Inspect Disks Inspect the new disk 1 fdisk -l Disk /dev/nvme1n1: 3.91 TiB, 4294967296000 bytes, 8388608000 sectors 1.2 Build a RAID0 If you have several small disks, a better approach is to build a RAID0 β€” this gives you not only a larger storage directory but also higher speed.

RAID Storage Technology
· β˜• 2 min read
1. What Is RAID RAID technology combines multiple physical hard drives into a single logical hard drive, so the operating system sees it as one storage device. There are two ways to implement RAID: hardware and software. A hardware implementation is a RAID controller, a standalone hardware device responsible for RAID control and management.

Common NPU Operations and Fault Handling
· β˜• 1 min read
Content referenced or recorded while troubleshooting, continuously updated 1. Mounting Devices into a Container 1 export IMAGE=ascendai/pytorch:2.1.0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 nerdctl run --security-opt apparmor=unconfined --security-opt seccomp=unconfined --rm -it --ipc=host \ --device=/dev/davinci7 \ --device=/dev/davinci_manager \ --device=/dev/devmm_svm \ --device=/dev/hisi_hdc \ -v /usr/local/Ascend/driver:/usr/local/Ascend/driver \ -v /usr/local/Ascend/add-ons/:/usr/local/Ascend/add-ons/ \ -v /usr/local/sbin/npu-smi:/usr/local/sbin/npu-smi \ ${IMAGE} \ /bin/bash 2.

RDMA Technology
· β˜• 6 min read
1. What RDMA Is RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) is a technology created to solve the delay of server-side data processing in network transmission. With TCP/IP transmission, data passes through the network stack, then through the NIC to be sent; after the receiver receives it, the data is reassembled according to sequence numbers.

InfiniBand Network and Common Commands
· β˜• 10 min read
1. InfiniBand Network InfiniBand (abbreviated IB) is a computer network communication standard for high-performance computing. It offers extremely high throughput and very low latency, and is used for data interconnection between computers. InfiniBand is also used as a direct or switched interconnect between servers and storage systems, as well as between storage systems themselves.