Terms and Definitions#

NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP)

NVIDIA Cloud Partner: A partner that purchases the NVIDIA HW Reference Architecture (RA) to build a data center for hosting AI workloads.

Kubernetes as a Service

An automated mechanism to quickly stand up Kubernetes clusters for end customers.

Concurrent Multi-Tenancy

Concurrent multi-tenancy describes scenarios where more than one tenant has access (directly or indirectly) / is active on a physical host at any point in time.

Worker Host

A bare metal server that is building the foundation for the control plane as well as worker hosts.

Worker Node

A virtualized compute resource on a physical host, commonly referred to as “Guest Virtual Machine”. The worker node is the resource that is used by tenants to execute their workloads.

Shared Host

A worker host that is shared between two tenants (concurrent multi-tenancy on the host).

Dedicated Control Plane

A Kubernetes control plane (or similar) that is operating workloads of one tenant and one tenant only within the cluster.