An OS for NVIDIA Superchip computers
built from scratch on musl libc
with modern unix tooling.
- Launch GPU code transparently on local or remote hardware.
- Feel the performance of an OS that targets a single platform.
- Keep your system feeling fresh forever using provenance tooling.
- Add all your favorite programs using dnf5.
latency to a second GB10 machine. No clustering code needed. axon →
faster than other state of the art inference engines. S2 →
Vulkan speed without extra buffering on shared memory. axon →
lower CPU energy from scheduler optimization. System →
packages in the core system. Always the latest NVIDIA driver. Licensing →
CPU, GPU, and memory are services.
Decades of old vendor code make it supremely difficult to get a modern
Wayland desktop running on musl Linux on NVIDIA hardware. On Nerv, a
single daemon holds Vulkan, CUDA, NVML, and all the vendor libraries.
Buffers are shared between processes, not copied. A crashing program
takes down its connection, not the desktop. An unmodified build of Quake
opens an ordinary window on the local desktop and renders on an AMD card
on a Windows PC, as if the card were installed locally. Things locked
behind hardware SKUs become available too, such as GPUDirect-style RDMA,
MIG-style partitioning, and GPUs pooled across a fleet. Even
nvidia-smi works as expected, unlike on DGX OS :)
Nerv also speaks 9P2000.L, which means you can run your programs on the cores of another Nerv computer to increase performance or save power.
The rest of the time, it is just a very good computer.
