Choose base container and add instructions for updating

[egrace479]

We will provide a base container with instructions for participants to update it and submit with their model.

How do we implement that in CodaBench?

[egrace479]

We have a base container. It seems we may do a whitelist for requirements. This is a bigger discussion, ongoing with A3D3 and iHarp.

[work4cs]

Need to maintain the security for docker.

[work4cs]

We have a base container. It seems we may do a whitelist for requirements. This is a bigger discussion, ongoing with A3D3 and iHarp.

I feel it is hard to include all the possible requirements in the whitelist. Participants may use some packages we have not thought of and we do not want to limit what the participants can use.

[egrace479]

I feel it is hard to include all the possible requirements in the whitelist. Participants may use some packages we have not thought of and we do not want to limit what the participants can use.

The solution we discussed with the larger group resulted in a whitelist check that will exit with the message that a package is not allowed and they should contact us through GitHub to request it be added to the whitelist if needed.

Current whitelist proposal includes container packages and our baseline model requirements (as well as packages initially included by A3D3). @work4cs, please comment on the PR with any other packages you think should be included. Thanks!

[egrace479]

Note that we are also going to be using a shared container with A3D3 and iHarp, so we should make sure they are compatible (A3D3's). @work4cs, can you suggest any changes to theirs that may be necessary for us (such as installing PIL and tqdm)?

[work4cs]

We have a dockerfile. The important thing might be to have pip install pillow tqdm pandas scikit-learn pyyaml

[work4cs]

May I ask what the published shared docker we can use right now? docker ihsaanullah/fair_universe:latest in A3D3's github page is a container pushed 6 months ago based on docker hub?

[work4cs]

the latest shared container docker pull ghcr.io/a3d3-institute/hdr-image:latest in a3d3 github

[egrace479]

Link to the A3D3 container has been added to the repo and it is used in the challenge, so this is done.