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Expand Up @@ -88,7 +88,11 @@ This exposes the GPUs at index `0` and `2` — the first and third GPUs listed i

> [!NOTE]
>
> NVIDIA GPUs can only be accessed by systems running a single engine.
> The `--gpus` flag provides GPU access to containers created with
> `docker run`. To make GPUs available to services in a swarm, advertise them
> as [node generic resources](/reference/cli/dockerd/#node-generic-resources)
> and request them with
> [`--generic-resource`](/reference/cli/docker/service/create/#generic-resources).

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