Triton Inference Server Release 22.06
The Triton Inference Server container image, release 22.06, 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 22.06 is based on CUDA 11.7 Update 1 Preview, 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 22.06 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.
- Triton Arm (SBSA) containers are now out of beta.
- Auto-generated model configuration enables dynamic batching in supported models by default.
- Python backend models now support auto-generated model configuration.
- Decoupled API support in Python Backend model is out of beta.
- Updated I/O tensors naming convention for serving TorchScript models via PyTorch backend.
- Improvements to Perf Analyzer stability and profiling logic.
- Refer to the 22.06 column of the Frameworks Support Matrix for container image versions on which the 22.06 inference server container is based.
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
- Perf Analyzer stability criteria has been changed which may result in reporting instability for scenarios that were previously considered stable. This change has been made to improve the accuracy of Perf Analyzer results. If you observe this message, it can be resolved by increasing the --measurement-interval in the time windows mode or --measurement-request-count in the count windows mode.
- 22.06 is the last release that defaults to TensorFlow version 1. From 22.07 onwards Triton will change the default TensorFlow version to 2.X.
- Triton Client PIP wheels for Arm SBSA are not available
from PyPI and pip will install an incorrect Jetson
version of Triton Client library for Arm SBSA.
The correct client 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 https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/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:
- Starting from 22.02, the Triton container, which uses
the 22.02 or above 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.