Caffe2 Release 18.04

The NVIDIA container image of Caffe2, release 18.04, is available.

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
  Note:

  Note: Container image 18.04-py2 contains Python 2.7; 18.04-py3 contains Python 3.5.

• 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 2.1.15 (optimized for NVLink™ )
• OpenMPI™ 1.10.3

Driver Requirements

Release 18.04 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.

• Caffe2 container image version 18.04 is based on Caffe2 0.8.1.
• Fixed a bug in nvidia-examples/seq2seq that was reported in the 18.03 Release Notes. This bug caused executing the wrong number of iterations or epochs when loading snapshots.
• Caffe2 runtime binary compiled with NVTX support.
• Support NVTX ranges for CPU operators (GPU operators were already supported).
• Latest version of NCCL 2.1.15
• Ubuntu 16.04 with March 2018 updates

Announcements

Starting with the next major version of CUDA release, we will no longer provide Python 2 containers and will only maintain Python 3 containers.

Known Issues

There are no known issues in this release.