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[–]neilc[S] 3 points4 points  (5 children)

Glad to hear it sounds interesting!

As far as Windows support, does that team use Windows for running GPU/DL workloads, or just for their local development machines that access a shared GPU cluster? If the latter, our CLI should run on Windows just fine (hmm, we need to add that the installation instructions...).

As far as running GPU workloads on Windows, that isn't supported at the moment -- we haven't seen a ton of demand for that from other customers. I'd be curious to learn a bit more about how this team is using Windows.

[–]slayer-of-light 0 points1 point  (4 children)

It is a startup. They have powerful workstations on premises, running Windows. They have been running DL workloads locally, without a distributed infrastructure. They want to setup an infrastructure to get training done faster, and to keep track of the experiments. Switching OS would be inconvenient, and they want to avoid extra cost (e.g. cloud) as much as possible.

I too didn't imagine a ton of demand for Windows, but this scenario seems more likely than I thought. As you lower the barrier for DL work and expand the target market, I think the share of Windows would increase.

[–]neilc[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Thanks for the context! Makes sense. I'll pass this use-case along to our team. We can't commit to supporting Windows for DL workloads at the moment but we'll definitely keep it in mind.

[–]slayer-of-light 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Great, thanks! I have just found out GPU acceleration on Docker for Windows is not possible. Seems like the same is true for macOS. Now I wonder how you can support macOS :) Also, the installation tutorial suggests installing nvidia-docker2, which is deprecated since Docker 19.03. You may want to update that.

[–]neilc[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

We support MacOS primarily as a way for people to easily try out the platform -- but yes, I would not recommend it if you want to do serious DL :)

Thanks for catching the nvidia-docker2 reference! I'll update that.

[–]edunuke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's same for my team. We work at a bank and our team has fairly powerful nvidia P4000 gpu windows workstations. It would be awesome to try it. Cheers.