Does this mean that MXNet Users who use CUDA 8.0 will not be
supported(since you are stopping to test CUDA 8.0) ? I suggest we at least
have nightly tests for CUDA 8.0.

Do you have a sense of how many users are using CUDA 8.0/9.0 ?

-1


On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 9:50 AM, Chris Olivier <[email protected]>
wrote:

> +0
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Jin, Hao <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > +1
> >
> > On 3/14/18, 9:04 AM, "Anirudh" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >     +1
> >
> >     On Mar 14, 2018 8:56 AM, "Wu, Jun" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >     > +1
> >     >
> >     > On 3/14/18, 8:52 AM, "Marco de Abreu" <
> [email protected]>
> >     > wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     Hello,
> >     >
> >     >     this is a vote to upgrade our CI environment from the current
> > CUDA 8.0
> >     > with
> >     >     CuDNN 5.0 to CUDA 9.1 with CuDNN 7.0. Reason being that NVCC
> > under
> >     > CUDA 8
> >     >     does not support the Volta GPUs used in AWS P3 instances and
> thus
> >     > limiting
> >     >     our test capabilities. More details are available at [1].
> >     >
> >     >     In order to introduce support for Quantization [1], I'd like to
> >     > perform a
> >     >     system-wide upgrade. This should have no negative impact in our
> > users
> >     > but
> >     >     rather makes sure that we're actually testing with the latest
> >     > versions. The
> >     >     PR is available at [3].
> >     >
> >     >     This means that we would stop verifying CUDA 8 and CuDNN 5.0 as
> > part
> >     > of our
> >     >     PR process. At a later point in time, this could be picked up
> as
> > a
> >     >     candidate for an integration test as part of the nightly suite.
> >     >
> >     >     This is a lazy vote, ending on 17th of March, 2018 at 17:00
> (UTC
> > +1).
> >     >
> >     >     Best regards,
> >     >     Marco
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >     [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MXNET-99
> >     >     [2]: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/9552
> >     >     [3]: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/10108
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
> >
> >
> >
>

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