use_docker_with_nvidia_gpu

Use Docker with nvidia GPU

Installation

Important

Make sure you have a Nvidia GPU and installed the driver.

1. To run docker with nvidia gpu support, you need to install the nvidia container toolkit
2. Configure docker to use the nvidia runtime, see nvidia documentation (rootless mode not required)
3. Test the installation with
   • sudo docker run --rm --runtime=nvidia --gpus all ubuntu nvidia-smi

Usage

Important

To use the nvidia runtime, with Ẁinslow see environment variables

Troubleshooting

If you encounter some problems, you can check the following:

• To check if the nvidia runtime is correctly configured, run
  • docker info | grep -i runtimes
  • you should see something like

    Runtimes: nvidia runc
    Default Runtime: runc
    

• Or see the configuration file
  • cat /etc/docker/daeon.json

    ...
    {
        "runtimes": {
            "nvidia": {
            "args": [],
            "path": "nvidia-container-runtime"
            }
        }
    } 
    ...