Running on Nvidia ARM64

LocalAI can be run on Nvidia ARM64 devices, such as the Jetson Nano, Jetson Xavier NX, and Jetson AGX Xavier. The following instructions will guide you through building the LocalAI container for Nvidia ARM64 devices.

Prerequisites link

• Docker engine installed (https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/)
• Nvidia container toolkit installed (https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/latest/install-guide.html#installing-with-ap)

Build the container link

Build the LocalAI container for Nvidia ARM64 devices using the following command:

  git clone https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI

cd LocalAI

docker build --build-arg SKIP_DRIVERS=true --build-arg BUILD_TYPE=cublas --build-arg BASE_IMAGE=nvcr.io/nvidia/l4t-jetpack:r36.4.0 --build-arg IMAGE_TYPE=core -t localai-orin .
  

Usage link

Run the LocalAI container on Nvidia ARM64 devices using the following command, where /data/models is the directory containing the models:

  docker run -e DEBUG=true -p 8080:8080 -v /data/models:/build/models  -ti --restart=always --name local-ai --runtime nvidia --gpus all localai-orin
  

Note: /data/models is the directory containing the models. You can replace it with the directory containing your models.