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add docker #15

Closed MathieuMoalic closed 2 years ago

MathieuMoalic commented 2 years ago

Hello, Nice work on this project, it's really impressive all that you have done. I'm quite novice when it comes to OpenGL and C bindings but do you think it would be possible to add Docker to the build process to make it easier and more reproducible to build on different hardware ?

seeder-research commented 2 years ago

Hi Mathieu, We use Docker but are not proficient at making container recipes for Dockerbuilds. Will attempt to create one as you request. We have experience building on Singularity/Apptainer so maybe that will help. Our containers are based off the same template so we will need to recreate the whole process on Docker.

Also, it may be difficult to make the code work fast on a portable build. The reason being that the fast code uses offline kernel compilation. For the truly portable build, the binary will compile the kernel when it is launched. This was a consideration when we were deciding whether to create a docker container for the code. What is your intended deployment?

MathieuMoalic commented 2 years ago

In the past few months I started modifying my personal version of mumax ( mostly frontend / data formats / convenience functions / etc. ) and I found that using Docker simplified this process quite a lot as it can output a "somewhat" portable binary to use both on our worstations and on HPC. Now, if you have an already existing container solution more appropriate than docker, then you can dismiss my request, it's just that I only know docker at the moment and I was interested in this project as it is active, unlike the original mumax project.

xfong commented 2 years ago

dockerfile is available in v2.2.1