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Ari Hartikainen edited this page Jul 17, 2020 · 5 revisions

This page serves to collect ideas for an official Stan Docker image. In a first step the use cases and requirements should be defined from which the technical implementation should be derived from.

Use cases

  • Easy deployable (Docker)!
  • Debugging and development of Stan by developers
  • Reference platform for running Stan models in a reproducible manner (maybe use some Ubuntu LTS as basis?)
  • Persistency / interaction with host system
  • Harmonize interfaces (compiler & compiler settings)
  • Rapid availability with each release (maybe even a dev version supporting to create the image from git hashes)
  • Integration with Jenkins?
  • RStan image should integrate the base Stan docker image and the Rocker project ideally, see https://hub.docker.com/u/rocker/

Features

  • fast compiles (clang?)
  • different compiler settings for modelling or Stan development
  • support for compilation with ccache to speedup re-compilation
  • persistency through Docker volumes(?) or local mounts
  • pre-deploy Stan libraries such as the TBB, boost?
  • MPI enable / disabled
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