diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d621c900e4..bf8afcaae0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ cmd/tmp
 */**/.DS_Store
 /build
 libgpu-setup-*
+libsvm-*
 
 .project
 .settings
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 4be510abac..909012f81a 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-FROM ubuntu:18.04 AS linux
+# libsvm.a is linked with fcntl64, which was added to glibc since 2.28.
+# The earliest Ubuntu release that has glibc >=2.28 by default is 18.10, so the LTS one is 20.04.
+# If any issues occur on 20.04, it may be downgraded back to 18.04 with manual glibc upgrade.
+FROM ubuntu:20.04 AS linux
 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
 ENV SHELL /bin/bash
 ARG TZ=US/Eastern
@@ -93,6 +96,8 @@ COPY --from=server_builder /go/src/github.com/spacemeshos/go-spacemesh/build/go-
 COPY --from=server_builder /go/src/github.com/spacemeshos/go-spacemesh/build/go-p2p /bin/
 COPY --from=server_builder /go/src/github.com/spacemeshos/go-spacemesh/build/go-harness /bin/
 COPY --from=server_builder /go/src/github.com/spacemeshos/go-spacemesh/build/libgpu-setup.so /bin/
+# TODO(nkryuchkov): uncomment when go-svm is imported
+#COPY --from=server_builder /go/src/github.com/spacemeshos/go-spacemesh/build/libsvm.so /bin/
 
 ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/go-harness"]
 EXPOSE 7513
diff --git a/DockerfilePrebuiltBinary b/DockerfilePrebuiltBinary
index c6809b251f..32aa647646 100644
--- a/DockerfilePrebuiltBinary
+++ b/DockerfilePrebuiltBinary
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM ubuntu:18.04 AS linux
+FROM ubuntu:20.04 AS linux
 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
 ENV SHELL /bin/bash
 ARG TZ=US/Eastern
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ COPY go-hare /bin/go-hare
 COPY go-p2p /bin/go-p2p
 COPY go-harness /bin/go-harness
 COPY libgpu-setup.so /bin/
+# TODO(nkryuchkov): uncomment when go-svm is imported
+#COPY libsvm.so /bin/
 
 ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/go-harness"]
 EXPOSE 7513
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5940b65d68..9cd25a7c8b 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ all: install build
 .PHONY: all
 
 LDFLAGS = -ldflags "-X main.version=${VERSION} -X main.commit=${COMMIT} -X main.branch=${BRANCH}"
-include Makefile.Inc
+include Makefile-gpu.Inc
+# TODO(nkryuchkov): uncomment when go-svm is imported
+#include Makefile-svm.Inc
 
 DOCKER_HUB ?= spacemeshos
 TEST_LOG_LEVEL ?=
@@ -95,11 +97,15 @@ install:
 build: go-spacemesh
 .PHONY: build
 
-hare p2p: get-gpu-setup
+# TODO(nkryuchkov): uncomment when go-svm is imported
+get-libs: get-gpu-setup #get-svm
+.PHONY: get-libs
+
+hare p2p: get-libs
 	cd cmd/$@ ; go build -o $(BIN_DIR)go-$@$(EXE) $(GOTAGS) .
-go-spacemesh: get-gpu-setup
+go-spacemesh: get-libs
 	go build -o $(BIN_DIR)$@$(EXE) $(LDFLAGS) $(GOTAGS) .
-harness: get-gpu-setup
+harness: get-libs
 	cd cmd/integration ; go build -o $(BIN_DIR)go-$@$(EXE) $(GOTAGS) .
 .PHONY: hare p2p harness go-spacemesh
 
@@ -135,15 +141,15 @@ docker-local-build: go-spacemesh hare p2p harness
 .PHONY: docker-local-build
 endif
 
-test test-all: get-gpu-setup
+test test-all: get-libs
 	$(ULIMIT) CGO_LDFLAGS="$(CGO_TEST_LDFLAGS)" TEST_LOG_LEVEL=$(TEST_LOG_LEVEL) go test -timeout 0 -p 1 ./...
 .PHONY: test
 
-test-no-app-test: get-gpu-setup
+test-no-app-test: get-libs
 	$(ULIMIT) CGO_LDFLAGS="$(CGO_TEST_LDFLAGS)" TEST_LOG_LEVEL=$(TEST_LOG_LEVEL)  go test -timeout 0 -p 1 -tags exclude_app_test ./...
 .PHONY: test-no-app-test
 
-test-only-app-test: get-gpu-setup
+test-only-app-test: get-libs
 	$(ULIMIT) CGO_LDFLAGS="$(CGO_TEST_LDFLAGS)" TEST_LOG_LEVEL=$(TEST_LOG_LEVEL) go test -timeout 0 -p 1 -tags !exclude_app_test ./cmd/node
 .PHONY: test-only-app-test
 
diff --git a/Makefile.Inc b/Makefile-gpu.Inc
similarity index 100%
rename from Makefile.Inc
rename to Makefile-gpu.Inc
diff --git a/Makefile-svm.Inc b/Makefile-svm.Inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..25691da799
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Makefile-svm.Inc
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+PROJ_DIR := $(dir $(realpath $(firstword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))))
+BIN_DIR ?= $(PROJ_DIR)build/
+export GOOS
+export GOARCH
+export GOARM
+export BIN_DIR
+
+SVM_VERSION := 0.0.31
+
+export CGO_CFLAGS := $(CGO_CFLAGS) -I${BIN_DIR}
+
+ifeq ($(OS),Windows_NT)
+	HOST_OS := windows
+else
+	HOST_OS := $(shell uname | tr [A-Z] [a-z])
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(GOOS),)
+	GOOS := $(HOST_OS)
+endif
+
+ifeq ($(GOOS),windows)
+	PLATFORM := windows
+	SVM_CLI := svm-cli.exe
+	export CGO_LDFLAGS := $(CGO_LDFLAGS) -L$(BIN_DIR) -lsvm
+	export PATH := $(PATH):$(BIN_DIR)
+else
+	SVM_CLI := svm-cli
+	ifeq ($(GOOS),darwin)
+    	PLATFORM := macos
+    	export CGO_LDFLAGS := $(CGO_LDFLAGS) $(BIN_DIR)/libsvm.a -lm -ldl -framework Security -framework Foundation
+	else
+    	PLATFORM := linux
+    	export CGO_LDFLAGS := $(CGO_LDFLAGS) $(BIN_DIR)/libsvm.a -lm -ldl -Wl,-rpath,$(BIN_DIR)
+	endif
+endif
+
+CGO_TEST_LDFLAGS := $(CGO_LDFLAGS) -Wl,-rpath,$(BIN_DIR)
+
+SVM_ZIP = libsvm-$(PLATFORM)-$(SVM_VERSION).zip
+
+$(PROJ_DIR)$(SVM_ZIP):
+	echo "Building svm-$(PLATFORM)..."
+	mkdir -p $(BIN_DIR)/
+	curl -L https://github.com/spacemeshos/svm/releases/download/v$(SVM_VERSION)/svm-$(PLATFORM)-v$(SVM_VERSION).zip -o $(PROJ_DIR)$(SVM_ZIP)
+	unzip $(PROJ_DIR)$(SVM_ZIP) -d $(BIN_DIR)/
+	chmod +x $(BIN_DIR)/$(SVM_CLI)
+	ls $(BIN_DIR)
+
+get-svm: $(PROJ_DIR)$(SVM_ZIP)
+.PHONY: get-svm