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petRUShka
petRUShka

Reputation: 10162

How to run GPGPU inside docker image with different from host kernel and GPU driver version

I have machine with several GPUs. My idea is to attach them to different docker instances in order to use that instances in CUDA (or OpenCL) calculations.

My goal is to setup docker image with quite old Ubuntu and quite old AMD video drivers (13.04). Reason is simple: upgrade to newer version of driver will broke my OpenCL program (due to buggy AMD linux drivers).

So question is following. Is it possible to run docker image with old Ubuntu, old kernel (3.14 for example) and old AMD (fglrx) driver on fresh Arch Linux setup with fresh kernel 4.2 and newer AMD (fglrx) drivers in repository?

P.S. I tried this answer (with Nvidia cards) and unfortunately deviceQuery inside docker image doesn't see any CUDA devices (as It happened with some commentors of original answer)...

P.P.S. My setup:

  1. CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2670

  2. GPUs:

    • 1 x Radeon HD 7970

       $ lspci -nn | grep Rad
   83:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X] [1002:6798]
   83:00.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7970 Series] [1002:aaa0]

    • 2 x GeForce GTX Titan Black

Upvotes: 15

Views: 2141

Answers (1)

hbogert
hbogert

Reputation: 4353

With docker you rely on virtualization on Operating System level. That means you use the same kernel in all containers. If you wish to run different kernels for each container, you'll probably have to use system-level virtualization, e.g., KVM, VirtualBox. If your setup supports Intel's VT-d, you can pass the GPU as a PCIe device to the container(better terminology in this case is, Virtual Machine).

Upvotes: 2

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