Theano Release 18.07

The NVIDIA container image of Theano, release 18.07, is available.

Contents of Theano

This container image contains the complete source of the version of NVIDIA Theano in /opt/theano. It is pre-built and installed into the /usr/local/[bin,share,lib] directories in the container image. The container also includes the following:

• Ubuntu 16.04 including Python 2.7 environment
• NVIDIA CUDA 9.0.176 (see Errata section and 2.1) including CUDA^® Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines library™ (cuBLAS) 9.0.425
• NVIDIA CUDA^® Deep Neural Network library™ (cuDNN) 7.1.4
• NCCL 2.2.13 (optimized for NVLink™ )

Driver Requirements

Release 18.07 is based on CUDA 9, which requires NVIDIA Driver release 384.xx.

Key Features and Enhancements

This Theano release includes the following key features and enhancements.

• Theano container image version 18.07 is based on Theano 1.0.2.
• Latest version of CUDA^® Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines library™ (cuBLAS) 9.0.425.
• Ubuntu 16.04 with June 2018 updates

Announcements

We are continuing to incorporate monthly Theano upstream changes as well as upgrade NVIDIA libraries, such as cuDNN, cuBLAS, NCCL, and the Ubuntu OS. However, we will be discontinuing container updates once the next major CUDA version is released.

Known Issues

There are no known issues in this release.