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Caffe2 Release 18.04 (PDF)

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.