nvidia-docker
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	May 9 2017, 6:14 AM

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Name: nvidia-docker
Project Homepage: http://www.nvidia.com/object/docker-container.html
Why it should be included: allows the use of GPU enabled docker containers
Is it open source?: yes, but it requires proprietary nvidia drivers
Latest release tarball: https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker/releases/download/v1.0.1/nvidia-docker_1.0.1_amd64.tar.xz
Who will use it?: particularly useful for machine learning tasks that depend on cuda and cudnn, which isn't available for Solus yet
Github link: https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker

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R4623 nvidia-docker
	D4518	R4623:48d638fdadce Initial commit of nvidia-docker. Resolves T3641.

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Mentioned In: D4520: Initial commit of libnvidia-container
D4519: Initial commit of nvidia-container-runtime
T5340: docker client version "unknown-version"

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Seeing as you can get this directly from docker hub, any reason this should be included?

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12amnewday mentioned this in T5340: docker client version "unknown-version".Dec 21 2017, 7:19 PM

JoshStrobl triaged this task as Needs More Info priority.Mar 17 2018, 1:23 AM

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Any luck getting nvidia-docker2 into Solus? Someone posted 1.0.1 instructions here. The nvidia-docker repo is now package-based, and I'm not familiar with packaging for any distro. (I'm new to Solus - downloaded yesterday.)

@JoshStrobl. Nvidia docker is a plug-in to docker that manages the interaction between container processes and the Nvidia GPU driver. It handles the driver pass through and mounting of GPU devices in containers. Without it there is no clean way of accessing the GPU inside a container.

It is important to have this functionality for machine learning and any HPC workload. I for one need this support before coming back to Solus.

I found this github repo that got Nvidia docker 2 running on solus. https://github.com/flauted/solus-setup

Something this fundamental should probably be packaged up. Id like to take this on but I don't know enough about solus packaging to take it on.

I forgot to leave a comment here that I published that. Hopefully nvidia-docker.sh helps someone get started. Someone should definitely do it the right way, though. Making bins in an Ubuntu image felt wrong, but building bmake felt hard.