Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit Release 17.06
The NVIDIA container image of Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, release 17.06, is available.
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit container image version 17.06 is based on Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit 2.0.
Contents of the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit
This container image contains the source files that are used to build the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit in the /opt/cntk
directory. The Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit binaries are pre-built and installed into the /usr/local/cntk
directory.
A Python 3.4 Conda environment (including the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit module) is installed in the /opt/conda/envs/cntk-py34
directory. This is included in PATH
, so by default the python
command executes a Python 3.4 interpreter. To use the base Ubuntu Python 2.7 binary, you can either adjust PATH
or explicitly call /usr/bin/python
.
This image of the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit 2.0, is built with the following options enabled:
- 1-bit SGD
- Async SGD
- Python 3 API
- OpenCV
- Kaldi
The container also includes the following:
- Ubuntu 16.04
- NVIDIA CUDA® 8.0.61
- NVIDIA CUDA® Deep Neural Network library™ (cuDNN) 6.0.21
- NCCL 1.6.1 (optimized for NVLink™ )
Key Features and Enhancements
This Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit release includes the following key features and enhancements.
- Improved distributed Python validation performance by avoiding unnecessary NCCL initializations.
- Ubuntu 16.04 with May 2017 updates
Known Issues
There are no known issues in this release.