[deps] Add libibverbs for RDMA support

[RossCZ]

What does this PR do?

Add libibverbs-dev library to the Dockerfile.base to support Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA). This optimization enables faster node-to-node communication, leading to a significant reduction in distributed training times.

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Summary of Changes

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This pull request integrates a key dependency into the Docker build process, enabling RDMA capabilities. This enhancement is designed to significantly improve the performance of distributed training by facilitating faster and more efficient inter-node data transfer, ultimately reducing training times.

Highlights

• RDMA Support: Added the libibverbs-dev package to the Dockerfile.base to enable Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), which is crucial for optimizing node-to-node communication in distributed training.

Changelog

• docker/docker-cuda/Dockerfile.base
  • Installed libibverbs-dev for RDMA support.

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Code Review

This pull request adds libibverbs-dev to support RDMA, which is a valuable optimization for distributed training. The implementation in the Dockerfile can be improved by combining the new RUN instruction with the preceding one. This will optimize the Docker image by reducing layers and avoiding a redundant apt-get update call, which is a recommended best practice for writing Dockerfiles.

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To optimize the Docker image size and build time, it's recommended to combine apt-get commands into a single RUN layer. This new RUN instruction adds an unnecessary layer and runs apt-get update again. Please merge the installation of libibverbs-dev into the previous RUN command that installs gcc and g++, and then remove this new block.

The combined RUN command on lines 36-38 should be updated to:

RUN apt-get update && \
    apt-get install -y gcc g++ libibverbs-dev && \
    apt-get clean