The NVIDIA container image of Theano, release 18.03, is available.
Contents of Theano
This container image contains the complete source of the version of NVIDIA Theano in /opt/theano. It is pre-built and installed into the /usr/local/[bin,share,lib] directories in the container image.
The container also includes the following:
- Ubuntu 16.04 including Python 2.7 environment
- NVIDIA CUDA 9.0.176 (see Errata section and 2.1) including CUDA® Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines library™ (cuBLAS) 9.0.333 (see section 2.3.1)
- NVIDIA CUDA® Deep Neural Network library™ (cuDNN) 7.1.1
- NCCL 2.1.2 (optimized for NVLink™ )
Driver Requirements
Release 18.03 is based on CUDA 9, which requires NVIDIA Driver release 384.xx.
Key Features and Enhancements
This Theano release includes the following key features and enhancements.
- Theano container image version 18.03 is based on Theano 1.0.1.
- Latest version of cuBLAS 9.0.333
- Latest version of cuDNN 7.1.1
- Ubuntu 16.04 with February 2018 updates
Announcements
Due to minimal upstream activity, we will no longer incorporate upstream changes going forward. We will continue to upgrade NVIDIA libraries, such as cuDNN, cuBLAS, and NCCL, as well as the Ubuntu OS for another half a year until we discontinue support.
Known Issues
There are no known issues in this release.