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Add docker/xpu/Dockerfile.stable.vllm: a multi-stage Docker image for running verl on Intel GPUs (Arc Pro B-series, XPU), with vLLM 0.32.0+xpu rollout and FSDP/FSDP2 training on torch 2.14.0+xpu. XPU platform support comes from verl-hardware-plugin, which the image installs alongside verl.
Related: verl PR 8390 (vLLM 0.32.0 / transformers 5.16.1 for the CUDA stack), whose transformers window this image now follows.
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Hardware: Intel Arc Pro B60 (24 GB), driver stack as in the image.
On this stack (vLLM 0.32.0, torch 2.14.0+xpu, oneCCL 2022.1.1)
Pin the checkouts with --build-arg VERL_REF=<commit> --build-arg PLUGIN_REF=<commit>. For release builds add --no-cache so the system certificates, pip, certifi and uv are fetched fresh instead of served from a stale layer.
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Only docker/xpu/Dockerfile.stable.vllm is added. Stages: drivers -> runtime-base -> builder -> runtime. Only the finished /opt/venv and the verl / verl-hardware-plugin checkouts reach the shipped image; git, curl, uv and the driver .deb files stay in earlier stages.
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Added a container image for running verl with vLLM on Intel GPUs.
The image includes the GPU runtime and Python environment needed for Intel GPU workloads, providing a ready-to-use setup.
The build checks that key packages meet the required version constraints, helping ensure compatibility between vLLM and its dependencies.
Adds a multi-stage Ubuntu 24.04 Docker image for verl and vLLM XPU on Intel GPUs. The build installs Intel drivers and Python dependencies, checks package versions and compatibility, then assembles a runtime image with the virtual environment and source checkouts.
Changes: Intel GPU vLLM image
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Driver and runtime foundation docker/xpu/Dockerfile.stable.vllm
Documents build arguments, downloads versioned Intel driver packages, and installs Python and runtime libraries in the Ubuntu base.
Python environment and dependency build docker/xpu/Dockerfile.stable.vllm
Creates the virtual environment and installs verl, vLLM XPU, and the hardware plugin. Hardlinks identical large files and checks package versions and vLLM requirements.
Final runtime image docker/xpu/Dockerfile.stable.vllm
Copies the virtual environment and checkouts into the runtime image. Sets library paths, oneCCL variables, working directory, and command.
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Older pinned checkouts cannot build, the referenced run instructions are missing, and Triton package checks can fail. Merge with awareness of these limitations.
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- Line 10: Update the run-instructions reference in the Dockerfile header to
point to an existing document, or remove the comment if no suitable document
exists. Ensure the header does not refer to the missing README.
- Around line 132-134: Update the dependency selection in the vLLM 0.32.0 image
build so verl’s requirements resolve to a transformers version compatible with
vLLM’s minimum of 5.16.1; either use a verl revision with a compatible
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Add docker/xpu/Dockerfile.stable.vllm. The XPU-specific pins are inline, so
the build context needs nothing beyond the Dockerfile.
- Stages: drivers -> runtime-base -> builder -> runtime. Only the finished
/opt/venv and the verl / verl-hardware-plugin checkouts reach the shipped
image; git, curl, uv and the driver .debs stay in earlier stages.
- User-mode driver packages follow vLLM v0.29.0's docker/Dockerfile.xpu:
IGC 2.38.2, compute-runtime 26.27.39122.11, gmmlib 22.10.0,
Level Zero 1.32.0 (libze1 + libze-dev).
- libhwloc15, libpciaccess0, libigsc1 and intel-metrics-library come from
Intel's graphics PPA, which is removed again afterwards.
- No system oneAPI: the torch and vLLM wheels bring their own SYCL runtime
and oneCCL.
- LD_LIBRARY_PATH mirrors vLLM's image. The four
CCL_SYCL_{ALLGATHERV,ALLREDUCE,REDUCE_SCATTER,BROADCAST}_TMP_BUF=1
variables are set by default; without them oneCCL 2022.0.0 caches IPC
handles of freed buffers and host memory grows by several GB per step on
8 ranks.
- Pins: torch 2.13.0+xpu, transformers 5.17.0, kernels 0.16.x, pyzes>=0.1.2.
Verified on Arc Pro B60: package versions and a runtime library scan; one
GPU (platform detection, xccl, Triton kernel, plugin tests, hub
flash_attention_2, Liger, GRPO, pyzes Sysman PCI/NUMA query); two GPUs
(xccl collectives, per-rank device pinning, FSDP2 GRPO with sleep mode);
eight GPUs (24-step GRPO, host memory flat); 15 advantage-estimator /
policy-loss cases on one GPU; SFT with plain, Liger + sequence parallel,
and LoRA on two GPUs.
… and mathruler
- Pin uv to 0.13.4 (installer fetched for that version) and require pip >= 26.2.2 and
certifi >= 2026.10.19 in the venv, the releases with the corrected CA bundle after the
eMudhra emSign CA incident. A build-time check fails the build if a stale layer or
index leaves older versions. Document building release images with --no-cache.
- Install ffmpeg in runtime-base: torchcodec, qwen-vl-utils' video decoder, needs
FFmpeg's shared libraries at run time.
- Add qwen_vl_utils and mathruler to the XPU pins. They are in verl's verl-core extra but
not in requirements.txt, and the --no-deps install of verl does not bring them in.
Checked on the built image: pip 26.2.2, certifi 2026.10.19 (also pip's vendored copy), uv
0.13.4; qwen_vl_utils, mathruler and torchcodec import; torchcodec decodes a 10-frame
test video and qwen_vl_utils reads it; the two-step GRPO quick start passes on one B60.
PLUGIN_REF was pinned to e5ab532 while VERL_REF follows main. That pairing
left the image without PlatformXPU.get_collective_module() (plugin verl-project#70), so
verl's Ray rendezvous could not build a communicator on XPU, and without the
plugin's NUMA affinity patch (verl-project#72). Default both refs to main; release builds
still pin both with --build-arg.
- vLLM 0.32.0+xpu. Its XPU wheel requires torch==2.14.0 exactly (not 2.14.1), triton 3.8.0,
vllm_xpu_kernels 0.1.15.4 and tokenizers>=0.23.2. The user-mode driver set in vLLM's own
docker/Dockerfile.xpu is unchanged since 0.29.0, so the driver stage is untouched.
- torch 2.14.0 brings oneCCL 2022.1.1 and SYCL runtime 2026.1.0; LD_LIBRARY_PATH stays set
because that oneCCL cannot find its plugins without it.
- transformers 5.16.1, the pin verl uses, inside the window vLLM 0.32.0 accepts
(>=5.16.1,<5.20). The hub flash_attention_2 kernel loads its native torch214-xpu build with
both 5.16.1 and 5.17.0, so the old 5.17.0 pin is no longer needed.
Checked on Arc Pro B60: package versions, TLS floor and runtime library scan; one GPU
(platform detection, xccl, Triton 3.8.0, Sysman probe, plugin tests, hub flash_attention_2,
Liger, two-step GRPO); two GPUs (xccl collectives, FSDP2 GRPO with sleep mode).
verl PR verl-project#8390 (merged) moved requirements.txt to transformers>=5.5.3,!=5.6.0,<5.17, which
overlaps vLLM 0.32.0's own window (>=5.16.1,<5.20). The Dockerfile no longer filters
transformers out of requirements.txt and no longer pins it or kernels: transformers[kernels]
brings the kernels release that transformers itself allows. Today this resolves to
transformers 5.16.1 and kernels 0.16.2, the same set as before.
uv does not re-check packages that are already installed, so a verl checkout with an old
requirements.txt (transformers<5.13) silently downgraded transformers to 5.12.1, below
vLLM's floor. The check at the end of the builder stage now fails the build when
transformers, tokenizers or torch fall outside the range vLLM's wheel declares.
Checked on Arc Pro B60: pip check is clean for transformers; hub flash_attention_2, Liger,
platform detection, xccl, Triton and the two-step GRPO pass; a build from a stale cached
verl checkout is rejected by the new check.
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- Around line 140-142: Update the Triton installation step that uses TRITON_XPU
so the environment retains a distribution named triton satisfying vLLM’s
declared triton==3.8.0+xpu dependency; do not leave only triton-xpu after
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What does this PR do?
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docker/xpu/Dockerfile.stable.vllm: a multi-stage Docker image for running verl on Intel GPUs (Arc Pro B-series, XPU), with vLLM 0.32.0+xpu rollout and FSDP/FSDP2 training on torch 2.14.0+xpu. XPU platform support comes from verl-hardware-plugin, which the image installs alongside verl.Related: verl PR 8390 (vLLM 0.32.0 / transformers 5.16.1 for the CUDA stack), whose transformers window this image now follows.
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[{modules}] {type}: {description}(This will be checked by the CI)Test
Hardware: Intel Arc Pro B60 (24 GB), driver stack as in the image.
On this stack (vLLM 0.32.0, torch 2.14.0+xpu, oneCCL 2022.1.1)
pip check<5.17, installed 5.16.1)xpu / intel / xccl), xccl all_reduce, Triton 3.8.0 kernel, pyzes Sysman PCI/NUMA query, 12 plugin testsflash_attention_2kernel, Liger cross entropytorch214-xpubuild, with transformers 5.16.1 and with 5.17.0qwen_vl_utilson a generated cliprequirements.txt)API and Usage Example
Pin the checkouts with
--build-arg VERL_REF=<commit> --build-arg PLUGIN_REF=<commit>. For release builds add--no-cacheso the system certificates,pip,certifianduvare fetched fresh instead of served from a stale layer.Design & Code Changes
Only
docker/xpu/Dockerfile.stable.vllmis added. Stages:drivers->runtime-base->builder->runtime. Only the finished/opt/venvand the verl / verl-hardware-plugin checkouts reach the shipped image; git, curl, uv and the driver.debfiles stay in earlier stages.Checklist Before Submitting
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will prepare a doc in plugin side and points to this dockerfile.