GKE now supports the Parallelstore CSI driver in allowlisted general availability (GA), which means that you can reach out to your Google support team to use the service under GA terms

## Feature GKE now supports the Parallelstore CSI driver in allowlisted general availability (GA), which means that you can reach out to your Google support team to use the service under [GA terms](https://cloud.google.com/products#product-launch-stages). Parallelstore accelerates AI/ML training and excels at saturating individual compute clients, ensuring that expensive compute resources are efficiently used. The product demonstrated a 3.9x training time improvement and 3.7x better throughput improvement compared to native ML framework data loaders and saturates single clients NIC bandwidth at 90%+. For details, see [About the GKE Parallelstore CSI driver](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/parallelstore-for-gke). ## Feature In GKE version 1.30.3-gke.1639000 and later and 1.31.0-gke.1058000 and later, GKE can handle GPU and TPU node disruptions by notifying you in advance of a shutdown and by gracefully terminating your workloads. This feature is generally available. For details, see [Manage GKE node disruption for GPUs and TPUs](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/handle-disruption-gpu-tpu).