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apptainer docker tensorflow container issue with 2.18 - skipping loading of GPU

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, tensorflow

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue with the tensorflow/tensorflow:2.18-gpu and 2.17-gpu container images, comparing the available cuDNN libraries and GPU loading behavior. Trace the container build configuration to determine why the required library is unavailable; done means the 2.18 GPU container loads the GPU successfully without breaking the documented setup.

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Description

I'm using apptainer pull docker://tensorflow/tensorflow:latest-gpu, but tensorflow 2.18 is skipping loading of GPU, with this message:

W0000 00:00:1736383795.205652 747392 gpu_device.cc:2344] Cannot dlopen some GPU libraries. Please make sure the missing libraries mentioned above are installed properly if you would like to use GPU. Follow the guide at [https://www.tensorflow.org/install/gpu] for how to download and setup the required libraries for your platform.
Skipping registering GPU devices...

The tensor 2.17 container worked fine, but it appears that the 2.18 container wants to use libcudnn.9.0 but the container only provides libcudnn.8.0. The system libcudnn is not mapped to the container. The system has both 8 and 9 installed. This looks like a bug in the build of the container.

Note: Just using the system python and installing 2.18 (no containers), works fine as the system has both cudnn 8 and 9 installed.

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