Re: [LAZY VOTE][RESULT] Upgrade CI to CUDA 9.1 with CuDNN 7.0

2018-05-16 Thread Haibin Lin
Is there a plan for adding those CUDA 8 tests back to CI? What about CUDA 7? There were a few build problems in the past few weeks due to lack of CI coverage: - https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/10710 were found during 1.2 rc voting - https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/1

Re: MKL with 1.2.0rc3

2018-05-16 Thread Naveen Swamy
I understand that MKLML was experimental but like you pointed out it has been around for a while, so I am presuming some bugs would have been fixed. Users have also seen about 30% performance boost with MKL, now with the latest release we are dropping support and forcing to use another experimental

Re: MKL with 1.2.0rc3

2018-05-16 Thread Anirudh
Hi Naveen, There was an earlier flag for using MKLML which was a subset of MKL. I think this flag was removed when MKLDNN was added. I think the only replacement to the old MKLML is the MKLDNN feature that was added. ( I am assuming this also installs the MKLML) So if users don't want to use MKLDN

MKL with 1.2.0rc3

2018-05-16 Thread Naveen Swamy
How do I build the latest release(1.2.0rc3) with MKL enabled, it looks like its now defaulting to the experimental MKLDNN. I do not want to MKLDNN as it is experimental. -Naveen

installation page UX

2018-05-16 Thread Aaron Markham
Hi, I've written some notes on the wiki about issues with the installation page along with some suggestions. I'd appreciate your feedback here or on the wiki. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Installation+page+UX Cheers, Aaron

Re: Auto scaling for MXNet CI

2018-05-16 Thread Marco de Abreu
Thanks a lot! The following numbers are based on our experience in the test environment. Best case: ~1:50h (unchanged) (0:01 + 0:38 + 0:39 + 0:33 + 0:03) - conditions: No instances have to be provisioned and caches are primed Average case: 2:10h (1:50h + 0:10 for instance startup + 0:10 for cache

Abandoned MXNet readthedocs site

2018-05-16 Thread Hen
It seems we (Apache MXNet) have an old documentation site posted at: https://newdocs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ and only the absent @Awyan has the permissions to the site. See https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/10409 for more details. Raising this with readthedocs.org, we've bee