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@LAVEEN LAVEEN commented Mar 18, 2026

This PR introduces a fracitonal GPU support For G4 Series.

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This pull request enhances the GPU definition module by incorporating support for fractional GPU units on G4 series instances. This change allows for more efficient and flexible allocation of GPU resources, particularly for workloads that do not require a full GPU, thereby optimizing cost and resource utilization within the infrastructure.

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  • Fractional GPU Support: Introduced support for fractional GPU allocation for G4 series instances, enabling more granular resource management.
  • New G4 Instance Definitions: Added g4-standard-6, g4-standard-12, and g4-standard-24 instance types with fractional GPU counts (0.125, 0.25, and 0.5 respectively) to the GPU definition configuration.
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@LAVEEN LAVEEN added release-chore To not include into release notes release-improvements Added to release notes under the "Improvements" heading. labels Mar 18, 2026
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This pull request aims to add fractional GPU support for G4 series machine types. However, the current implementation uses fractional values for the count attribute of the guest accelerator, which is incorrect. The Terraform provider for both GKE node pools and Compute Engine instances expects an integer for the number of physical GPUs. This will cause the deployment to fail.

Additionally, the pull request is missing a few key elements required by the project's contribution guidelines:

  • The PR description does not explain how these changes were tested.
  • The project's documentation, specifically docs/gpu-support.md, has not been updated. The document incorrectly states that GPU automation is only supported for the a2 machine family, while it now covers a2, a3, g2, and g4 families.

@LAVEEN LAVEEN removed the release-chore To not include into release notes label Mar 18, 2026
@LAVEEN LAVEEN marked this pull request as draft March 18, 2026 11:41
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