install env setup

Environment Setup#

For a quick and easy setup, GraphStorm can be installed as a pip package.

However, configuring an GraphStorm environment is non-trivial. Users need to install dependencies and configure distributed PyTorch running environments. For this reason, we recommend that our users setup Docker as the base running environment to use GraphStorm.

Prerequisites#

1. Docker: You need to install Docker in your environment as the Docker documentation suggests, and the Nvidia Container Toolkit.

For example, in an AWS EC2 instance without Docker preinstalled, you can run the following commands to install Docker.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt update
sudo apt install Docker.io

If using AWS Deep Learning AMI GPU version, the Nvidia Container Toolkit has been preinstalled.

2. GPU: The current version of GraphStorm requires at least one GPU installed in the instance.

Build a GraphStorm Docker image from source code#

Please use the following command to build a Docker image from source:

git clone https://github.com/awslabs/graphstorm.git
cd /path-to-graphstorm/docker/
bash /path-to-graphstorm/docker/build_docker_oss4local.sh /path-to-graphstorm/ docker-name docker-tag

There are three arguments of the build_docker_oss4local.sh:

1. path-to-graphstorm (required), is the absolute path of the “graphstorm” folder, where you clone and download the GraphStorm source code. For example, the path could be /code/graphstorm.

2. docker-name (optional), is the assigned name of the to be built Docker image. Default is graphstorm.

3. docker-tag (optional), is the assigned tag name of the to be built docker image. Default is local.

You can use the below command to check if the new Docker image is created successfully.

docker image ls

If the build succeeds, there should be a new Docker image, named <docker-name>:<docker-tag>, e.g., graphstorm:local.

Create a GraphStorm Container#

First, you need to create a GraphStorm container based on the Docker image built in the previous step.

Run the following command:

nvidia-docker run --network=host -v /dev/shm:/dev/shm/ -d --name test graphstorm:local

This command will create a GraphStorm contained, named test and run the container as a daemon.

Then connect to the container by running the following command:

docker container exec -it test /bin/bash

If succeeds, the command prompt will change to the container’s, like

root@ip-address:/#