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Torch Release 17.02

The NVIDIA container image of Torch, release 17.02, is available.

Torch container image version 17.02 is based on Torch7.

Contents of Torch

This container image contains the complete source of the version of NVIDIA Torch in /opt/torch. It is pre-built and installed into the /usr/local/[bin,share,lib] directories in the container image.

The NVIDIA® Collective Communications Library ™ (NCCL) (NCCL) library and Torch bindings for NCCL are installed in this container, and models using DataParallelTable can easily leverage this library for fast parallel training. The container also includes the following:

Key Features and Enhancements

This Torch release includes the following key features and enhancements.

  • Pseudo-FP16 support in cuDNN layers
  • Improved performance of cat operation
  • Added support for half tensor on the host side
  • Ubuntu 14.04 with January 2017 updates

Known Issues

There are no known issues in this release.

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