Create a GPU CI job

[kunaltyagi]

Your Environment

• Operating System and version: CI, default cuda version
• Compiler: nvcc
• PCL Version: HEAD

Context

Current CI fails to take into account GPU compilation.

Possible Solution

• adding a GPU CI job
• enabling GPU modules in CI using a gpu enabled base image

[jasjuang]

This will be awesome to have but Azure pipelines don't seem to provide instances with GPU. I am curious to know how do you plan to achieve this. For my own downstream project, I am still using good old Jenkins + AWS g3 instances and would love to migrate to a more modern solution if there is one.

[kunaltyagi]

don't seem to provide instances with GPU

For using the compilers, we don't need GPU. GPU are needed only for running.

[jasjuang]

@kunaltyagi True, but do we not have unit tests on PCL that requires a GPU to run?

[kunaltyagi]

That I don't know. Running tests is at a lower priority right now 😅

[kunaltyagi]

I've created a PR, but I don't know how the dockerfiles are built/updated/pushed with correct OS. Don't see any pipeline in there

[taketwo]

Up to now this has been done by hand. Creating a pipeline to generate images would a space-age future work :D

[kunaltyagi]

Azure has a pipeline for that, with sane defaults. It takes in a file and does the rest. To push it to the registry, that'll need secrets. And pipelines can be set on a timed/manual trigger. Possible before space age, but maybe later

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