Docker image experiments for Spatter

While you don't need a container to run Spatter, it could be useful in certain situations since it encapsulates your build environment.

Dockerfile contents

FROM ubuntu:18.04

RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get -y install git cmake g++

#Clone the latest tagged commit of the Spatter repo into the container with no history
RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hpcgarage/spatter.git
#Checkout the latest version
RUN cd spatter && git checkout tags/v0.4 -b v0.4
RUN cd spatter && ./configure/configure_omp_gnu
run cd spatter/build_omp_gnu && make -j4

#Run the Dockerfile to build a Spatter image docker build - <spatter-dockerfile -tspatter/v0.4

#Save your local image to a tarball docker save spatter/v0.4 > spatter_docker_user.tar

#Copy the tarball to another machine, untar and feed to docker load

cat spatter_docker.tar | docker load
a090697502b8: Loading layer [==================================================>]  65.57MB/65.57MB
97e6b67a30f1: Loading layer [==================================================>]  991.2kB/991.2kB
100ef12ce3a4: Loading layer [==================================================>]  15.87kB/15.87kB
19331eff40f0: Loading layer [==================================================>]  3.072kB/3.072kB
2982f83240bc: Loading layer [==================================================>]  27.38MB/27.38MB
b308374e9591: Loading layer [==================================================>]  307.3MB/307.3MB
da172660e5f4: Loading layer [==================================================>]  76.27MB/76.27MB
4d63024071d9: Loading layer [==================================================>]  62.46kB/62.46kB
11324f44d780: Loading layer [==================================================>]  310.8kB/310.8kB
220ccf0cd28d: Loading layer [==================================================>]  217.6kB/217.6kB
Loaded image: spatter/v0.4:latest

$ docker image ls
REPOSITORY                         TAG                                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
spatter/v0.4                       latest                              6b82381966be        13 minutes ago      469MB

Run Spatter from an interactive terminal.

We could also make it automatically run a script once it loads

$ docker run --rm -it spatter/v0.4
root@e4bd9e983419:/# cd spatter/build_omp_gnu/ && ./spatter -pFILE=../json/amg.json

Running Spatter version 0.4
Compiler: GNU ver. 7.4.0
Compiler Location: /usr/bin/gcc
Backend: OPENMP
Aggregate Results? YES

Run Configurations
[ {'name':'amg', 'kernel':'Gather', 'pattern':[1333,0,1,2,36,37,38,72,73,74,1296,1297,1298,1332,1334,1368], 'delta':587, 'length':1539898, 'agg':10, 'wrap':1, 'threads':40} ]

config  time(s)      bw(MB/s)    
0       0.01571      12547.9     

Min         25%          Med          75%          Max         
12547.9      12547.9      12547.9      12547.9      12547.9     
H.Mean       H.StdErr    
12547.9      0