Ubuntu Server 21.10 (Impish Indri) expands on edge use cases with a minimised system installation option in the Ubuntu Server Live Installer. It also comes with needrestart enabled by default for automated daemon restarts after applying library updates. In addition, the latest development cycle brings native, certified drivers for NVIDIA vGPU software on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS, fully supporting sophisticated AI/ML workloads.
Ubuntu Server 21.10 will be supported by Canonical until July 2022. All new features will be available in the upcoming Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS release.
NVIDIA vGPU software drivers
In the world of a constantly growing volume of data, the usage of AI/ML technologies is becoming more and more common. While traditional processors are fully sufficient to get started, running sophisticated workloads in production usually requires using dedicated GPU devices for better performance thanks to their parallel processing architecture.
When running such…