image_fah-client

Dockerfile for Folding@home client with AMD and Nvidia GPGPU support

Note: The FOSS AMD driver included in Debian 11 provides OpenCL version 1.1 (as reported by clinfo). The requirements of FAHClient do not specify the OpenCL version, so only running FAHClient might tell you if the available OpenCL version is sufficient.

Building

Build the image debian-gpgpu first. See https://github.com/michaelfranzl/image_debian-gpgpu

Then:

docker build -t fah-client .

Running

The data directory and all its contents need to be read- and writeable to the fahclient user of the container (e.g. user ID 101). Put the client's config.xml inside this directory.

docker run -name fahclient0 -v /path/to/fahclient-data:/var/lib/fahclient fahclient

• To expose AMD GPU(s) to the container, add the Docker argument --device /dev/dri:/dev/dri.
• To expose Nvidia GPU(s) to the container, add the Docker argument --gpus all. You need an addition to Docker for the --gpus argument. See https://github.com/michaelfranzl/image_debian-gpgpu#exposing-nvidia-gpus-to-containers