Accelerator-Docker

Accelerator-Docker supports running container with accessibility to a target hardware accelerator (e.g., fpga or gpu).
It can manage status of all accelerators in a server. Accelerator-Docker supports automatic pass-through of PCIe-connected accelerators (FPGA or GPU) in container. Original docker requires setting for mounting device driver, libraries to access specific hardware in the container. In the Accelerator-Docker, however, it automatically runs a container following the pre-determined settings with simple option. Moreover, it provides common interface to manage heterogeneous accelerators. More details are described below.

Getting Started

Dependencies

• Docker
• Go >= 1.6
• Protocol Buffers (C++) & Protoc

For dependencies, refer to Docker, Go, Protocol Buffers

Installation

Install dependencies for build

$ sudo apt-get update && \
  sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git pkg-config libseccomp-dev libcap-dev libpci-dev libapparmor-dev libselinux1-dev

Now, clone this repository and make it.

$ git clone https://github.com/KAIST-NCL/Accelerator-Docker.git
$ cd Accelerator-Docker
$ make
$ sudo make install

$ sudo systemctl restart docker #Restart docker daemon to notify that new runtime is added

Tested Environment

• Ubuntu 16.04
• Docker 18.06.1-ce
• Go 1.11
• Protocol Buffers 3.6.1

How to run Accelerator-Docker

First, you need to provide device list you want to access from docker container as protocol buffer text form.
/etc/accelerator-docker/device.pbtxt

accelerators:[{
    type: "xilinx.fpga/kcu1500",
    devices:[{
        name: "KCU-1500",
        device_file:[
            "/dev/xcldev1",
            "/dev/xdmadev1"
        ],
        library:[
            "/PATH/TO/LIB/libxilinxopencl.so"
        ],
        file:[{
            src: "/PATH/IN/HOST/libxclgemdrv.so",
            dst: "/PATH/IN/CONTAINER/libxclgemdrv.so",
        }],
        env:[{
            key: "XILINX_SDX",
            val: "/SDX"
        }]
    }]
}]

• Files specified in 'library' section are mounted to '/usr/lib' of container, while the files specified in 'file' section are mounted to specific path.

$ docker run --runtime acc-runtime -e ACC_VISIBLE_DEVICES=KCU-1500

Using ACC-Manager

Accelerator-Docker not only provides runtime hook for docker but also provides manager registered in device file. Accelerator-Manager provides status for all devices and which container uses the hardware.

$ acc-manager list

Authors

KAIST NCL

• Sunghyun Kim
• Eunju Yang

License

This project is released under the BSD-3-Clause, see LICENSE for more information.