Dockerfile

FROM nvidia/cuda:9.0-devel-ubuntu16.04

# TensorFlow version is tightly coupled to CUDA and cuDNN so it should be selected carefully
ENV TENSORFLOW_VERSION=1.12.0
ENV PYTORCH_VERSION=1.0.0
ENV CUDNN_VERSION=7.4.1.5-1+cuda9.0
ENV NCCL_VERSION=2.3.5-2+cuda9.0

# Python 2.7 or 3.5 is supported by Ubuntu Xenial out of the box
ARG python=2.7
ENV PYTHON_VERSION=${python}

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --allow-downgrades --allow-change-held-packages --no-install-recommends \
        build-essential \
        cmake \
        git \
        curl \
        vim \
        wget \
        ca-certificates \
        libcudnn7=${CUDNN_VERSION} \
        libnccl2=${NCCL_VERSION} \
        libnccl-dev=${NCCL_VERSION} \
        libjpeg-dev \
        libpng-dev \
        python${PYTHON_VERSION} \
        python${PYTHON_VERSION}-dev

RUN ln -s /usr/bin/python${PYTHON_VERSION} /usr/bin/python

RUN curl -O https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py && \
    python get-pip.py && \
    rm get-pip.py

# Install TensorFlow, Keras and PyTorch
RUN pip install tensorflow-gpu==${TENSORFLOW_VERSION} keras h5py torch==${PYTORCH_VERSION} torchvision

# Install Open MPI
RUN mkdir /tmp/openmpi && \
    cd /tmp/openmpi && \
    wget https://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v3.1/downloads/openmpi-3.1.2.tar.gz && \
    tar zxf openmpi-3.1.2.tar.gz && \
    cd openmpi-3.1.2 && \
    ./configure --enable-orterun-prefix-by-default && \
    make -j $(nproc) all && \
    make install && \
    ldconfig && \
    rm -rf /tmp/openmpi

# Install Horovod, temporarily using CUDA stubs
RUN ldconfig /usr/local/cuda-9.0/targets/x86_64-linux/lib/stubs && \
    HOROVOD_GPU_ALLREDUCE=NCCL HOROVOD_WITH_TENSORFLOW=1 HOROVOD_WITH_PYTORCH=1 pip install --no-cache-dir horovod && \
    ldconfig

# Create a wrapper for OpenMPI to allow running as root by default
RUN mv /usr/local/bin/mpirun /usr/local/bin/mpirun.real && \
    echo '#!/bin/bash' > /usr/local/bin/mpirun && \
    echo 'mpirun.real --allow-run-as-root "$@"' >> /usr/local/bin/mpirun && \
    chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/mpirun

# Configure OpenMPI to run good defaults:
#   --bind-to none --map-by slot --mca btl_tcp_if_exclude lo,docker0
RUN echo "hwloc_base_binding_policy = none" >> /usr/local/etc/openmpi-mca-params.conf && \
    echo "rmaps_base_mapping_policy = slot" >> /usr/local/etc/openmpi-mca-params.conf && \
    echo "btl_tcp_if_exclude = lo,docker0" >> /usr/local/etc/openmpi-mca-params.conf

# Set default NCCL parameters
RUN echo NCCL_DEBUG=INFO >> /etc/nccl.conf

# Install OpenSSH for MPI to communicate between containers
RUN apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends openssh-client openssh-server && \
    mkdir -p /var/run/sshd

# Allow OpenSSH to talk to containers without asking for confirmation
RUN cat /etc/ssh/ssh_config | grep -v StrictHostKeyChecking > /etc/ssh/ssh_config.new && \
    echo "    StrictHostKeyChecking no" >> /etc/ssh/ssh_config.new && \
    mv /etc/ssh/ssh_config.new /etc/ssh/ssh_config

# Download examples
RUN apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends subversion && \
    svn checkout https://github.com/uber/horovod/trunk/examples && \
    rm -rf /examples/.svn

WORKDIR "/examples"