NVCaffe Release 18.01

NVCaffe Release 18.01 (PDF)

The NVIDIA container image of Caffe, release 18.01, is available.

Contents of NVCaffe

This container image contains the complete source of the version of NVCaffe in /opt/caffe. It is pre-built and installed into the /usr/local/[bin,share,lib] directories in the container image. The container also includes the following:

Driver Requirements

Release 18.01 is based on CUDA 9, which requires NVIDIA Driver release 384.xx.

Key Features and Enhancements

This NVCaffe release includes the following key features and enhancements.

  • NVCaffe0.16.5 container image version 18.01 is based on Caffe Deep Learning Framework by the BVLC.
  • Added Layer-wise Adaptive Rate Control (LARC) parameters
  • Added adaptive weight decay parameters
  • Added adaptive momentum parameters
  • Added adaptive global gradient scaling parameters
  • Added advanced augmentation algorithms
  • Implemented less memory consumption
  • Latest version of cuBLAS
  • Latest version of cuDNN
  • Latest version of NCCL
  • Ubuntu 16.04 with December 2017 updates

Known Issues

cuBLAS 9.0.282 regresses RNN seq2seq FP16 performance for a small subset of input sizes. As a workaround, revert back to the 11.12 container.

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