Nvidia-Docker – Build and Run Docker Containers Leveraging Nvidia GPUs

Re:Nvidia-Docker – Build and Run Docker Containers Leveragin... by ThePhysicist on Friday August 18, 2017 @12:47PM (#15047746)

Just for information, it's also possible to use NVIDIA GPUs inside Docker containers without using `nvidia-docker`:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25185405/using-gpu-from-...

In a nutshell, you can give the container access to the NVIDIA device file via the `--device` flag, so all you need is a container with the NVIDIA drivers. The added benefit of this is that you can use different versions of the drivers side-by-side (in my understanding).

I thought this might be relevant as some people might not want to use the `docker-nvidia` CLI to run containers (I'm not sure how you would use this via the Docker API for example).

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Re:Nvidia-Docker – Build and Run Docker Containers Leveragin... by flx42_ on Friday August 18, 2017 @01:02PM (#15047867)

We document how this on our wiki: https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker/wiki/Internals

> The added benefit of this is that you can use different versions of the drivers side-by-side (in my understanding).

No, you can only have one driver version, the one that correspond to the loaded kernel modules. Installing the driver inside a Docker image makes it non-portable.

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Re:Nvidia-Docker – Build and Run Docker Containers Leveragin... by ThePhysicist on Friday August 18, 2017 @04:22PM (#15049433)

Ah thanks for the clarification, I was not aware of this!

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Re:Nvidia-Docker – Build and Run Docker Containers Leveragin... by arnon on Saturday August 19, 2017 @04:33AM (#15052353)

It's also possible to set up CUDA in LXC https://sqream.com/cuda-in-lxc-containers/

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