fc-devel

Adds special powers to your PEMFC fuel cell models.

Description

This guide will help you run your PEMFC fuel cell models in docker containers with WSL2 on Windows 10 using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS as a Linux distribution and VcXsrv windows X server to run PEMFC fuel cell models in a graphical display.

Note: This project was developed for private research. DISPLAY variable was set in the container.

Getting Started

Dependencies

• Windows 10 with WSL2 installed
• Docker Desktop for Windows
• VcXsrv windows X server

Before you begin:

• Make sure Docker Desktop and VcXsrv window X server is not running.
• Open WSL2 and edit: /etc/ssh/sshd_config and make sure "X11Forwarding yes" and "X11UseLocalhost yes" is uncommented.

Install Docker Desktop and enable the WSL2 integration for Ubuntu 22.04 (see below)

Install Linux x86 CUDA Toolkit without Nvidia Linux GPU driver using WSL-Ubuntu Package

Open Ubuntu 22.04 in WSL2 remove the old GPG key:

sudo apt-key del 7fa2af80

Install apt repositories and cuda toolkit without Nvidia Linux GPU driver

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/wsl-ubuntu/x86_64/cuda-wsl-ubuntu.pin
sudo mv cuda-wsl-ubuntu.pin /etc/apt/preferences.d/cuda-repository-pin-600
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/11.8.0/local_installers/cuda-repo-wsl-ubuntu-11-8-local_11.8.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-wsl-ubuntu-11-8-local_11.8.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo cp /var/cuda-repo-wsl-ubuntu-11-8-local/cuda-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install cuda

Create a Firewall Rule

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1. Open Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security and create a new inbound firewall rule.

2. Click New Rule and Select Program

3. Select Browse and open the folder to C:\Program Files\VcXsrv and select vcxsrv.exe

4. Select Allow the connection and make sure Domain/Private/Public is checked

5. Name the new rule "VcXsrv X Server"

6. Follow same the procedure for xlaunch.exe and name the new rule "VcXsrv X Launch"

Start the VcXsrv

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1. Start VcXsrv

2. Select multiple windows and display number -1

3. Select start with no client

4. Select clipboard, Primary selection , disable access control and unselect Native opengl

5. Select Finish

Pulling and Running the container

To pull the container:

docker pull emcca029/fcalpha:latest

To run the container in WSL2:

docker run -it --gpus all fc-alpha /bin/bash 

Switch to the developer user using 'admin' as password

su - developer

Check your setup by running (see below):

pcmanfm