NVCaffe Release 18.03

The NVIDIA container image of Caffe, release 18.03, 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:

• 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 NVCaffe release includes the following key features and enhancements.

• NVCaffe0.16.6 container image version 18.03 is based on Caffe Deep Learning Framework by the BVLC.
• ImageDataLayer parallelized to improve training performance when the dataset appears to have multiple files on a disk.
• Improved training accuracy. For more information, see: NVIDIA Caffe: GitHub
• Added support for RNN, Deconvolution, and SSD layers.
• Latest version of cuBLAS 9.0.333
• Latest version of cuDNN 7.1.1
• Ubuntu 16.04 with February 2018 updates

Known Issues

There are no known issues in this release.