Triton Inference Server Release 22.05

The Triton Inference Server container image, release 22.05, is available on NGC and is open source on GitHub.

Contents of the Triton Inference Server container

The Triton Inference Server Docker image contains the inference server executable and related shared libraries in /opt/tritonserver.

For the list of what the container includes, refer to Deep Learning Frameworks Support Matrix.

Driver Requirements

Release 22.05 is based on CUDA 11.7, which requires NVIDIA Driver release 515 or later. However, if you are running on a data center GPU (for example, T4 or any other data center GPU), you can use NVIDIA driver release 450.51 (or later R450), 470.57 (or later R470), or 510.47 (or later R510).

The CUDA driver's compatibility package only supports particular drivers. Thus, users should upgrade from all R418, R440, and R460 drivers, which are not forward-compatible with CUDA 11.7. For a complete list of supported drivers, see the CUDA Application Compatibility topic. For more information, see CUDA Compatibility and Upgrades.

GPU Requirements

Release 22.05 supports CUDA compute capability 6.0 and later. This corresponds to GPUs in the NVIDIA Pascal, NVIDIA Volta™, NVIDIA Turing™, and NVIDIA Ampere Architecture GPU families. For a list of GPUs to which this compute capability corresponds, see CUDA GPUs. For additional support details, see Deep Learning Frameworks Support Matrix.

Key Features and Enhancements

This Inference Server release includes the following key features and enhancements.

NVIDIA Triton Inference Server Container Versions

The following table shows what versions of Ubuntu, CUDA, Triton Inference Server, and NVIDIA TensorRT™ are supported in each of the NVIDIA containers for Triton Inference Server. For older container versions, refer to the Frameworks Support Matrix.

Known Issues

Here are the known issues in this release:
  • A protobuf python package version that satisfies protobuf>=3.5.0,<3.20 must be installed before installing the Triton Arm SBSA wheels or any tritonclient version of 2.22.0 or earlier. Tritonclient versions of 2.22.3 or newer for Jetson, x86, and Windows will work normally.
  • Triton PIP wheels for Arm SBSA are not available from PyPI and pip will install an incorrect Jetson version of Triton for Arm SBSA.

    The correct wheel file can be pulled directly from the Arm SBSA SDK image and manually installed.

  • Traced models in PyTorch seem to create overflows when int8 tensor values are transformed to int32 on the GPU.

    Refer to pytorch/pytorch#66930 for more information.

  • Triton cannot retrieve GPU metrics with MIG-enabled GPU devices (A100 and A30).
  • Triton metrics might not work if the host machine is running a separate DCGM agent on bare-metal or in a container.
  • Running a PyTorch TorchScript model using the PyTorch backend, where multiple instances of a model are configured can lead to a slowdown in model execution due to the following PyTorch issue:

    pytorch/pytorch#27902

  • Starting in 22.02, the Triton container, which uses the 22.04 PyTorch container, will report an error during model loading in the PyTorch backend when using scripted models that were exported in the legacy format (using our 19.09 or previous PyTorch NGC containers corresponding to PyTorch 1.2.0 or previous releases).

    To load the model successfully in Triton, you need to export the model again by using a recent version of PyTorch.