Yeah, sorry Chris, mixed up the names. @Naveen: Would you be fine with doing the switch now and adding integration tests later or is this a hard constraint for you?
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 6:39 PM, Chris Olivier <[email protected]> wrote: > Isn't the TItan V the Volta and not the Tesla? > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:36 AM, Naveen Swamy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Marco, > > My -1 vote is for dropping support to CUDA 8 and not for adding CUDA 9. > > CUDA 9.0 support for MXNet was added Oct'30-2017, I think that all users > > might not have switched to CUDA 9.0 > > > > Look at the earlier discussion on the same topic > > > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/27b84e4fc0e0728f2e4ad8b6827d7f > > 996635021a5a4d47b5d3f4dbfb@%3Cdev.mxnet.apache.org%3E > > > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 10:14 AM, Marco de Abreu < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Right, the code changes would not be validated against CUDA 8.0 as part > > of > > > the PR process. > > > > > > I don't have any numbers, but it's pretty unlikely that anybody is > still > > > using CUDA 8.0. According to > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA#GPUs_supported, the devices which > are > > > not being supported by CUDA 9 are under the Fermi architecture which > has > > > been released in April 2010. These GPUs are way too old, so I think > we're > > > safe with not covering them specifically - this does not mean we're > > > entirely deprecating them. > > > > > > One thing to note here is that we're not testing CUDA 9 as of now. > > > Considering that the Telsa architecture (Titan V, V100) requires at > least > > > CUDA 9 and those are probably the most widely used GPUs for Deep > > Learning, > > > we'd probably be covering a wider user-base in comparison to CUDA 8 if > we > > > make that switch. > > > > > > -Marco > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 5:59 PM, Naveen Swamy <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
