External GPU

gregology

Hey Team, is anyone using an external GPU (eGPU) on docker/ubuntu? If so, what hardware are you using? I'm transcoding a few TB of videos which will take a very long time using just the CPU.

reven

Not to my knowledge, though as long as you can just pass it into the docker container, it should behave the same as any GPU. but yeah, I'm not aware of anyone who has tried

gregology

Cheers, I'll do some more research and report back

Blackpaw

I am, Intel GPU on one node, Nvidia 1080 on another, works the best.

Env on both nodes:
Proxmox Hypervisior (Debian

Debian VM testing (bookworm), though bullseye would have been fine
-- Docker on the VM

I use PCI passthrough for the GPU hardware in proxmox, that was the trickiest bit to setup, but rock solid once done. For the NVIDIA VM I use the nvidia runtime in docker.

YAML File:

services:
  fileflows-node:
    image: revenz/fileflows:latest
    hostname: fileflows-node
    runtime: nvidia
    container_name: fileflows-officenode
    environment:
      - FFNODE=true
      - PUID=998
      - PGID=998
      - TZ=Australia/Brisbane
      - ServerUrl=http://docker-server:5000/
      - TempPath=/temp
      - NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all
    volumes:
      - /mnt/plex:/mnt/plex
      - /temp:/temp
    restart: unless-stopped

I do up to 6 simultaneous transcodes on the nvida node, get over 100fps per transcode. Runs overnight transparently, never have an issue.

Blackpaw

Blackpaw Eh, I misread eGPU, not the same thing sorry 🙁

Should work though anyway,