Caffe2 Release 17.10

The NVIDIA container image of Caffe2, release 17.10, is available.

Caffe2 container image version 17.10 is based on Caffe2 0.8.1.

Contents of Caffe2

This container image contains the complete source of the version of Caffe2 in /opt/caffe2. It is pre-built and installed into the /opt/caffe2/[binaries,lib] directories in the container image. The container also includes the following:

• Ubuntu 16.04
• NVIDIA CUDA 9.0
• NVIDIA CUDA^® Deep Neural Network library™ (cuDNN) 7.0.3
• NCCL 2.0.5 (optimized for NVLink™ )
• OpenMPI™ 1.10.3

Driver Requirements

Release 17.10 is based on CUDA 9, which requires NVIDIA Driver release 384.xx.

Key Features and Enhancements

This Caffe2 release includes the following key features and enhancements.

• Improved data pipeline using libturbojpeg for faster JPEG decoding
• Enhanced and fixed bugs in nvidia-examples/seq2seq
• Added GradientSlice support to MultiPrecisionSGD
• Added FP16 support to gradient clipping
• Latest version of CUDA
• Latest version of cuDNN
• Latest version of NCCL
• Ubuntu 16.04 with September 2017 updates

Known Issues

There are no known issues in this release.