If you have Docker 19.03 or later, a typical command to launch the container is: $ docker run --gpus all -it --rm -v local_dir:container_dir nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:xx.xx-py3 If you have Docker 19.02 or earlier, a typical command to launch the container is: $ nvidia-docker run -it --rm -v local_dir:container_dir nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:xx.xx-py3 https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/container..