gpu-jupyter/README.md

# GPU-Jupyter
#### Leverage Jupyter Notebooks with the power of your NVIDIA GPU and perform GPU calculations using Tensorflow and Pytorch in collaborative notebooks. 

![Jupyterlab Overview](/extra/jupyterlab-overview.png)

First of all, thanks to [docker-stacks](https://github.com/jupyter/docker-stacks) 
for creating and maintaining a robost  Python, R and Julia toolstack for Data Analytics/Science 
applications. This project uses the NVIDIA CUDA image as the base image and installs their 
toolstack on top of it to enable GPU calculations in the Jupyter notebooks. 
The image of this repository is available on [Dockerhub](https://hub.docker.com/r/cschranz/gpu-jupyter).

## Contents

1. [Requirements](#requirements)
2. [Quickstart](#quickstart)
3. [Tracing](#tracing)
4. [Deployment](#deployment-in-the-docker-swarm)
5. [Configuration](#configuration)
6. [Issues and Contributing](#issues-and-contributing)


## Requirements

1.  A NVIDIA GPU
2.  Install [Docker](https://www.docker.com/community-edition#/download) version **1.10.0+**
 and [Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/) version **1.6.0+**.
3.  Get access to your GPU via CUDA drivers within Docker containers. Therfore, check out this 
[medium article](https://medium.com/@christoph.schranz/set-up-your-own-gpu-based-jupyterlab-e0d45fcacf43).
    The CUDA toolkit is not required on the host system, as it will be deployed 
    in [NVIDIA-docker](https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker). 
    You can be sure that you can access your GPU within Docker, 
    if the command `docker run --gpus all nvidia/cuda:10.1-base-ubuntu18.04 nvidia-smi`
    returns a result similar to this one:
    ```bash
    Mon Jun 22 09:06:28 2020       
    +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    | NVIDIA-SMI 440.82       Driver Version: 440.82       CUDA Version: 10.1     |
    |-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
    | GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
    | Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
    |===============================+======================+======================|
    |   0  GeForce RTX 207...  Off  | 00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
    |  0%   46C    P8     9W / 215W |    424MiB /  7974MiB |      6%      Default |
    +-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                   
    +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    | Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
    |  GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage      |
    |=============================================================================|
    +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    ```
4. Clone the Repository or pull the image from 
    [Dockerhub](https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/cschranz/gpu-jupyter):
    ```bash
    git clone https://github.com/iot-salzburg/gpu-jupyter.git
    cd gpu-jupyter
    ```

## Quickstart

First of all, it is necessary to generate the `Dockerfile` based on the NIVIDA base image and the 
[docker-stacks](https://github.com/jupyter/docker-stacks).
As soon as you have access to your GPU within Docker containers 
(make sure the command `docker run --gpus all nvidia/cuda:10.1-base-ubuntu18.04 nvidia-smi` shows your
GPU statistics), you can generate a Dockerfile, build and run it.
The following commands will start *GPU-Jupyter* on [localhost:8848](http://localhost:8848) with the default 
password `asdf`.

  ```bash
  ./generate_Dockerfile.sh
  docker build -t gpu-jupyter .build/  # will take a while
  docker run -d -p [port]:8888 gpu-jupyter  # starts gpu-jupyter WITHOUT GPU support
  ``` 

To run the container with GPU support, a local data volume and , run:
  ```bash
docker run -d -it -p 8848:8888 -v $(pwd)/data:/home/jovyan/work -e GRANT_SUDO=yes -e JUPYTER_ENABLE_LAB=yes --user root --restart always --name gpu-jupyter_1 gpu-jupyter 
``` 


## Parameter

The script `generate-Dockerfile.sh` has multiple parameters:

* `-c|--commit`: specify a commit or `"latest"` for the `docker-stacks`, the default commit is a working one.

* `-s|--slim`: Generate a slim Dockerfile. 
As some installations are not needed by everyone, there is the possibility to skip some installations 
to reduce the size of the image.
Here the `docker-stack` `scipy-notebook` is used instead of `datascience-notebook` that comes with Julia and R. 
Moreover, none of the packages within `src/Dockerfile.usefulpackages` is installed.

* `--no-datascience-notebook`: As the name suggests, the `docker-stack` `datascience-notebook` is not installed
on top of the `scipy-notebook`, but the packages within `src/Dockerfile.usefulpackages` are.

* `--no-useful-packages`: On top of the `docker-stack` `datascience-notebook`, the essential `gpulibs` are installed
but not the packages within `src/Dockerfile.usefulpackages`.


The script `start-local.sh` is a wrapper for a quick configuration of the underlying `docker-compose.yml`.
It is equal to these commands:

  ```bash
  docker build -t gpu-jupyter .build/
  docker run -d -p [port]:8888 gpu-jupyter
  ```

## Tracing
  
With these commands we can see if everything worked well:
```bash
bash show-local.sh  # a env-var safe wrapper for a 'docker-compose logs -f'
docker ps
docker logs [service-name]
```

In order to stop the local deployment, run:

  ```bash
  ./stop-local.sh
  ```
 
 
 ## Deployment in the Docker Swarm
 
A Jupyter instance often requires data from other services. 
If that data-source is containerized in Docker and sharing a port for communication shouldn't be allowed, e.g., for security reasons,
then connecting the data-source with *GPU-Jupyter* within a Docker Swarm is a great option! 

### Set up Docker Swarm and Registry

This step requires a running [Docker Swarm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x843GyFRIIY) on a cluster or at least on this node.
In order to register custom images in a local Docker Swarm cluster, 
a registry instance must be deployed in advance.
Note that the we are using the port 5001, as many services use the default port 5000.

```bash
sudo docker service create --name registry --publish published=5001,target=5000 registry:2
curl 127.0.0.1:5001/v2/
```
This should output `{}`. \

Afterwards, check if the registry service is available using `docker service ls`.


### Configure the shared Docker network

Additionally, *GPU-Jupyter* is connected to the data-source via the same *docker-network*. Therefore, This network must be set to **attachable** in the source's `docker-compose.yml`:

```yml
services:
  data-source-service:
  ...
      networks:
      - default
      - datastack
  ...
networks:
  datastack:
    driver: overlay
    attachable: true  
```
 In this example, 
 * the docker stack was deployed in Docker swarm with the name **elk** (`docker stack deploy ... elk`),
 * the docker network has the name **datastack** within the `docker-compose.yml` file,
 * this network is configured to be attachable in the `docker-compose.yml` file
 * and the docker network has the name **elk_datastack**, see the following output:
    ```bash
    sudo docker network ls
    # ...
    # [UID]        elk_datastack                   overlay             swarm
    # ...
    ```
  The docker network name **elk_datastack** is used in the next step as a parameter.
   
### Start GPU-Jupyter in Docker Swarm

Finally, *GPU-Jupyter* can be deployed in the Docker Swarm with the shared network, using:

```bash
./generate-Dockerfile.sh
./add-to-swarm.sh -p [port] -n [docker-network] -r [registry-port]
# e.g. ./add-to-swarm.sh -p 8848 -n elk_datastack -r 5001
```
where:
* **-p:** port specifies the port on which the service will be available.
* **-n:** docker-network is the name of the attachable network from the previous step, e.g., here it is **elk_datastack**.
* **-r:** registry port is the port that is published by the registry service, see [Set up Docker Swarm and Registry](set-up-docker-swarm-and-registry).

Now, *gpu-jupyter* will be accessable here on [localhost:8848](http://localhost:8848) with the default password `asdf` and shares the network with the other data-source, i.e., all ports of the data-source will be accessable within *GPU-Jupyter*, even if they aren't routed it the source's `docker-compose` file.

Check if everything works well using:
```bash
sudo docker service ps gpu_gpu-jupyter
docker service ps gpu_gpu-jupyter
```

In order to remove the service from the swarm, use:
```bash
./remove-from-swarm.sh
```

## Configuration

Please set a new password using `src/jupyter_notebook_config.json`.
Therefore, hash your password in the form (password)(salt) using a sha1 hash generator, e.g., the sha1 generator of [sha1-online.com](http://www.sha1-online.com/). 
The input with the default password `asdf` is appended by a arbitrary salt `e49e73b0eb0e` to `asdfe49e73b0eb0e` and should yield the hash string as shown in the config below.
**Never give away your own unhashed password!**

Then update the config file as shown below and restart the service.

```json
{
  "NotebookApp": {
    "password": "sha1:e49e73b0eb0e:32edae7a5fd119045e699a0bd04f90819ca90cd6"
  }
}
```

### Updates
 
#### Update CUDA to another version

Please check version compatibilities for [CUDA and Pytorch](https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/)
 respectively [CUDA and Tensorflow](https://www.tensorflow.org/install/gpu) previously. 
To update CUDA to another version, change in `Dockerfile.header`
the line:

    FROM nvidia/cuda:10.1-base-ubuntu18.04
    
and in the `Dockerfile.pytorch` the line:

    cudatoolkit=10.1

Then re-generate and re-run the image, as closer described above:

```bash
./generate-Dockerfile.sh
./start-local.sh -p 8848
```

#### Update Docker-Stack

The [docker-stacks](https://github.com/jupyter/docker-stacks) are used as  a
submodule within `.build/docker-stacks`. Per default, the head of the commit is reset to a commit on which `gpu-jupyter` runs stable. 
To update the generated Dockerfile to a specific commit, run:

```bash
./generate-Dockerfile.sh --commit c1c32938438151c7e2a22b5aa338caba2ec01da2
```

To update the generated Dockerfile to the latest commit, run:

```bash
./generate-Dockerfile.sh --commit latest
```

A new build can last some time and may consume a lot of data traffic. Note, that the latest version may result in
a version conflict!
More info to submodules can be found in
 [this tutorial](https://www.vogella.com/tutorials/GitSubmodules/article.html).


## Issues and Contributing

This project has the intention to create a robust image for CUDA-based GPU-applications, which is built on top of the [docker-stacks](https://github.com/jupyter/docker-stacks). You are free to help to improve this project, by:

* [filing a new issue](https://github.com/iot-salzburg/gpu-jupyter/issues/new)
* [open a pull request](https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/)