How can I use GPU in Docker image with Theano launched from Windows host?

Question

I want to run Theano via Docker image on my PC with Windows installed. The Docker image contains Ubuntu system, CUDA drivers and Theano ( https://hub.docker.com/r/kaixhin/cuda-theano/ ) but in order to use GPU in my algorithm I need to attach Nvidia devices to the image:

docker run -it --device /dev/nvidiactl --device /dev/nvidia-uvm --device /dev/nvidia0 kaixhin/cuda-theano

Is there a way to do it in Windows, since I don't have a path /dev/nvidiactl etc.? I have been looking for other Docker images but it seems that all of these are using Linux as the host system. Is there a version that will allow me to use GPU from Windows?

For now I can run my script in Docker, but it uses only my CPU:

WARNING (theano.sandbox.cuda): CUDA is installed, but device gpu is not available (error: Unable to get the number of gpus available: no CUDA-capable device is detected)

Answer 1

In order to run CUDA Docker images you need NVIDIA Docker . Unfortunately, Theano is not supported as an official image at the moment but you can write your own Dockerfile leveraging nvidia/cuda

Having said that, you won't be able to do it on Windows because Docker needs a Linux VM and there is no support for VM GPU passthrough on Windows.

Answer 2

You can try this image:

https://hub.docker.com/r/kaixhin/cuda-theano/

It requires nvidia-docker

nvidia-docker run -it kaixhin/cuda-theano