1 # Docker NVIDIA Notes
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  3 
  4 ## Setting Up Docker Containers for NVIDIA GPUs
  5 
  6 To run Docker on NVIDIA GPUs, you need to install the NVIDIA Container Toolkit first.
  7 Follow the instructions [here](https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/latest/install-guide.html).
  8 
  9 Once the NVIDIA Container Toolkit has been installed, you can check access to the GPU by running the following image to run the `nvidia-smi` tool:
 10 
 11 ```bash
 12 sudo docker run --rm --runtime=nvidia --gpus all ubuntu nvidia-smi
 13 ```
 14 
 15 You will get an output similar to this:
 16 
 17 ```bash
 18 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 19 | NVIDIA-SMI 610.43.02              KMD Version: 610.43.02     CUDA UMD Version: 13.3     |
 20 +-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
 21 | GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
 22 | Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
 23 |                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
 24 |=========================================+========================+======================|
 25 |   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060        Off |   00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
 26 |  0%   48C    P8             13W /  145W |     579MiB /   8151MiB |      0%      Default |
 27 |                                         |                        |                  N/A |
 28 +-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
 29 
 30 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 31 | Processes:                                                                              |
 32 |  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
 33 |        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
 34 |=========================================================================================|
 35 |  No running processes found                                                             |
 36 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 37 ```
 38 
 39 ## DockerFile for HAT using NVIDIA SDK
 40 
 41 You can use the following `Dockerfile` for building a new docker container:
 42 
 43 ```dockerfile
 44 FROM nvidia/cuda:13.3.1-devel-ubuntu26.04
 45 
 46 RUN apt-get update -q && apt install -qy \
 47         build-essential git cmake vim maven curl bash unzip zip wget
 48 
 49 WORKDIR /opt/babylon/
 50 RUN wget https://download.java.net/java/early_access/jdk28/13/GPL/openjdk-28-ea+13_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz
 51 RUN tar xvzf openjdk-28-ea+13_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz
 52 ENV JAVA_HOME=/opt/babylon/jdk-28/
 53 ENV PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
 54 RUN java --version
 55 
 56 ## Configure Babylon/HAT from source
 57 RUN git clone https://github.com/openjdk/babylon.git
 58 WORKDIR /opt/babylon/babylon
 59 
 60 RUN apt-get update -y
 61 RUN apt-get install -y autoconf libfreetype6-dev
 62 RUN apt-get install -y file
 63 RUN apt-get install -y libasound2-dev
 64 RUN apt-get install -y libcups2-dev
 65 RUN apt-get install -y libfontconfig1-dev
 66 RUN apt-get install -y libx11-dev libxext-dev libxrender-dev libxrandr-dev libxtst-dev libxt-dev
 67 
 68 RUN bash configure --with-boot-jdk=${JAVA_HOME}
 69 RUN make clean
 70 RUN make images
 71 
 72 # Configure HAT
 73 WORKDIR /opt/babylon/babylon/hat
 74 ENV PATH=/opt/babylon/babylon/build/linux-x86_64-server-release/jdk/bin/:$PATH
 75 ENV JAVA_HOME=/opt/babylon/babylon/build/linux-x86_64-server-release/jdk
 76 RUN /bin/bash -c "source env.bash"
 77 
 78 RUN mvn clean package
 79 
 80 ## Expose volume
 81 WORKDIR /opt/babylon/babylon/hat/
 82 VOLUME ["/data"]
 83 ```
 84 
 85 ## Build Image
 86 
 87 Run the following command in the same directory of the `Dockerfile` with the previous configuration:
 88 
 89 ```bash
 90 docker build . -t babylon
 91 ```
 92 
 93 ## Running Examples on the NVIDIA GPU
 94 
 95 Check `nvidia-smi` tool from NVIDIA with the new image, so we have connection to the GPU:
 96 
 97 ```bash
 98 docker run -it --rm --runtime=nvidia --gpus all babylon nvidia-smi
 99 ```
100 
101 All setup! Now you can run HAT on NVIDIA GPUs.
102 
103 Run matrix-multiply example:
104 
105 ```bash
106 docker run -it --rm --runtime=nvidia --gpus all babylon java @.ffi-cuda-example matmul.Main --size=1024 --kernel=2DREGISTERTILING_FP16
107 ```
108 
109 ## Enable debug info
110 
111 ```bash
112 docker run -it --rm --runtime=nvidia --gpus all babylon java -DHAT=INFO @.ffi-cuda-example matmul.Main --size=1024 --kernel=2DREGISTERTILING_FP16
113 
114 Expected output:
115 
116 ```bash
117 [INFO] Input Size     : 1024x1024
118 [INFO] Check Result:  : false
119 [INFO] Num Iterations : 100
120 [INFO] NDRangeConfiguration: 2DREGISTER_TILING_FP16
121 
122 [INFO] Using NVIDIA GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060
123 [INFO] Dispatching the CUDA kernel
124         \_ BlocksPerGrid   = [16,16,1]
125         \_ ThreadsPerBlock = [16,16,1]
126 ```