Release 17.09

The container image of NVIDIA Optimized Deep Learning Framework, powered by Apache MXNet, release 17.09, is available.

NVIDIA Optimized Deep Learning Framework, powered by Apache MXNet container image version 17.09 is based on Apache MXNet 0.11.0.rc3.

Contents of the Optimized Deep Learning Framework container

This container image contains the complete source of the version of NVIDIA Optimized Deep Learning Framework, powered by Apache MXNet in /opt/mxnet. It is pre-built and installed to the Python path. The container also includes the following:

• Ubuntu 16.04
• NVIDIA CUDA^® 9.0
• NVIDIA CUDA^® Deep Neural Network library™ (cuDNN) 7.0.2
• NCCL 2.0.5 (optimized for NVLink™ )

Driver Requirements

Release 17.09 is based on CUDA 9, which requires NVIDIA Driver release 384.xx.

Key Features and Enhancements

This NVIDIA Optimized Deep Learning Framework, powered by Apache MXNet release includes the following key features and enhancements.

• Tensor Core support in convolutions, deconvolutions, and fully connected layers on Volta
• Support for mixed precision training with SGD optimizer
• Streamlined FP16 examples for image classification
• Optimized input pipeline for image processing
• Latest version of CUDA
• Latest version of cuDNN
• Latest version of NCCL
• Ubuntu 16.04 with August 2017 updates

Known Issues

There are no known issues in this release.