stffsc/faiss repository overview

⁠Inofficial FAISS docker containers

FAISS⁠ is a library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors, developed by Facebook Research⁠ and MIT licensed⁠. This repo contains inofficial Dockerfiles for building an installing the C++ library as well as the Python bindings.

The container is based on the official installation instructions⁠ and uses the the official CUDA docker container nvidia/cuda:11.4.0-cudnn8-devel-ubuntu20.04⁠ as the base image.

Sources available on https://github.com/stes/faiss-docker⁠.

⁠Usage

Containers can be pulled using

docker pull stffsc/faiss:latest
docker pull stffsc/faiss:1.7.1-cuda11.4.0-cudnn8-devel-ubuntu20.04

All containers come with python 3.8 installed and FAISS python bindings:

docker run -u $(id -u) --ipc host -it stffsc/faiss:latest python
Python 3.8.10 (default, Jun  2 2021, 10:49:15) 
[GCC 9.4.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import faiss
>>> print(faiss.__version__)
1.7.1

⁠GitHub

https://github.com/stes/faiss-docker⁠