NVIDIA Base Command Platform Release Notes
Current status, software versions, and known issues of NVIDIA Base Command Platform.
NVIDIA Base Command™ Platform is a comprehensive platform for businesses, their data scientists and IT teams, offered in a ready-to-use cloud-hosted solution that manages the end to end lifecycle of AI development, AI workflows, and resource management.
This document captures the features and fixes associated with the specified release of Base Command Platform.
Here are the latest release notes for Base Command Platform.
Release 03/16/2023
NGC Web UI v2.280.2
- Fixed: The Create Job button on the Base Command Platform Dashboard will be disabled for users logged in as viewers.
- Fixed: Users can convert job results to a dataset only when the job's status is in a terminal state (i.e., when the job is no longer running).
- Enhancement: Users can select 'gRPC' container protocol across all ACEs when creating a job.
- Enhancement: Users will now see a banner/alert in NGC setup informing them of the services supporting secrets.
- Enhancement: The secrets feature in NGC setup and the secrets section in job creation will only appear in an organization with secret management enabled.
NGC Base Command Web UI v0.33.5
- Fixed: Fixed a typo with the
--commandlinefield in the CLI command generated on the Base Command > Create Job page. - Fixed: Users with Base Command Platform Viewer access cannot click the Create Job button in the recent jobs section of the Dashboard page.
- Fixed: The ACE dropdown in the storage quota section should now display options based on ACE's name instead of its storage cluster description.
- Fixed: Fixed an issue where workspaces were not mounting correctly when creating/cloning a job.
- Fixed: The job log should now only scroll to the bottom of the log container if enough text is present.
- Fixed: The tooltip will display correctly when a user hovers over a job's sparklines on the Base Command > Jobs page.
- Fixed: Fixed an issue with missing name when cloning and templating jobs that used legacy port fields.
- Fixed: Only one notification for a given action (such as creating a workspace or deleting a workspace) will be displayed at a time, and the previous message will be removed.
- Fixed: The Base Command > Workspaces table will automatically fetch available workspaces at set intervals so that any newly created workspaces will display to the user.
- Fixed: Users will see usability improvements, such as accurate breadcrumb links, more readable placeholder text, and better support for smaller browser windows.
- Fixed: Time slice and run time will default to and allow for 0 (zero) value.
- Fixed: Enable Create Job button only if the form has been modified.
- Enhancement: Containers will now be validated based on the selected image tag and selected ace instance.
NGC Org Web UI v0.27.1
- Fixed: Improved access control to ensure org team/user actions that are not permitted are now disabled.
NGC CLI 3.17.0
- Fixed: Windows users can upload large files for resources and models.
- Enhancement: Users can now specify 'gRPC' protocol for the
--portargument when running Base Command jobs.
Release 03/07/2023
NGC Web UI v2.276.0
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where cloning a job from the table view resulted in missing values, such as container image, from the newly created job. Users should now be able to successfully clone a job from the table view with the necessary data to rerun.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue that would reset ACE run time for cloned jobs.
NGC CLI 3.16.0
- Fixed: Resolved an issue related to a warning message with
ngc batch job execcommand. - Fixed: Resolved an issue with running
ngc batch attachon an array job. - Fixed: Resolved an issue where CLI did not exit the shell session even if the job was finished and required force exiting (CTRL-C) the session.
NGC Batch Worker v1.15.0
- Fixed: Resolved an issue with the calculation of space used by the result set after the job is deleted.
Release 02/21/2023
NGC Web UI v2.275.7
- Fixed: Provide support for batch jobs that did not download telemetry CSV data properly.
NGC Org Web UI v0.26.8
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where users without sufficient permissions can see team actions.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where the Remove User action in the User table was stuck in a disabled state.
- Fixed: Users will be able to filter columns by column headers, not just the name of the property.
NGC CLI 3.15.0
- Fixed: Users can list resultset files in JSON format.
- Fixed: Uploads with
ngc registry model upload-version --sourceas a single file will now correctly return the file count and size. - Fixed: Model and resource version uploads using
ngc registry resource upload-versionwill no longer time out for large files. - Enhancement: Validate instance and image architecture matches before scheduling a job.
Release 02/07/2023
NGC Web UI v2.275.2
- Fixed: Display current NGC version on the web app.
- Fixed: Improved user experience when searching for datasets and workspaces during job creation.
- Fixed: Show InfiniBand telemetry for multi-node jobs.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where users may not be automatically redirected from the organization/team selection page.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where Select Your Organization / Team was broken in Safari.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where joblogs were not accessible for all multi-node type jobs.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue regarding valid secret key names.
- Enhancement: Improved the organization and team selection on the Organization launch page.
NGC Org Web UI v0.26.4
- Fixed: The Create Team button is now disabled when the user does not have appropriate permissions to create teams within an organization
NGC CLI 3.14.1
- Fixed: Users will get a warning if they attempt to upload a model or resource with any files larger than the maximum allowed file size (currently 1TiB).
NGC Batch Service v1.44.8
- Fixed: Allow storage volume to be empty when updating ACE.
Release 01/24/2023
NGC Org Web UI v0.26.1-r3
- Fixed: Display the application name along with the version.
NGC CLI 3.13.0
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where an invalid array type argument for single-node jobs wasn't flagged.
- Fixed: When running
ngc diag allorngc diag server, the output will now include a connectivity check to the Helm chart repository.
NGC Batch Service v1.44.8
- Fixed: Removed redundant REST error handler.
Release 01/10/2023
NGC Org Web UI v0.24.3
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where users encountered an application error when storage data is undefined.
NGC CLI 3.12.0
- Enhancement: Users can now specify
--column descriptionwhen listing models and resources. - Enhancement:
ngc team add-usercan be used with User ID or Email. When specifying User ID, the name argument will no longer be required. When specifying an email, the name argument is required. Please only specify an email/name when adding a new, non-existent user to a team. If account with that email already exists in the team, CLI will ask user to use update-user command. Please only add an existing user to a team by specifying the digit User ID of that user. - Enhancement: When uploading a model or resource, users will see an animated progress bar and notice an improvement in performance.
Release 12/13/2022
NGC Web UI v2.104.0
- Fixed: Users will see better visual alignment between a jobs status history table column header and its related data.
- Enhancement: Users can pause a resumable multi-node job giving better job control and the allocated GPU resources.
- Enhancement: Performance improvements with retrieving resultset and dataset files. Job resultset and dataset files are now fetched in real-time directly from the file storage service, reducing the time it takes for these files to become visible in the UI. Additionally, users can now view and download workspace files directly from the workspace details page.
NGC Org Web UI v0.23.2
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where hovering over GPU types in tables did not display type names in the tooltip.
- Fixed: Fixed alignment issues with the Daily Peak graph under Organization > Usage.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where selecting a time frame for the Organization > Usage Monthly Peak table results in an application error.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where the Organization > Usage Monthly Peak table sorting feature was missing.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where the GPU Usage Monthly Peak Total didn't reset at the beginning of a new month.
- Enhancement: Redesigned the Organization > Usage pages to improve the display of GPU monthly and daily peak usages, system information, and log and private registry usage.
NGC CLI 3.11.0
- Fixed: NGC CLI now supports the correct encoding of special characters such as _ .+ - found in email addresses.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue where, in some cases, users saw a warning message "Access denied retrieving ace list" when issuing the NGC CLI command
ngc config set. - Fixed: Resolved an issue where canceling a registry resource download results in the wrong message displayed to the user.
- Fixed: Resolved an issue with downloading a single file of guest registry resource.
- Enhancement: Users will be able to pause a resumable multi-node job giving better job control and the allocated GPU resources.
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