Re: Additional mentor to MXNet - Jim Jagielski

2018-06-18 Thread Steffen Rochel
Welcome Jim, appreciating your support. Steffen On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 3:14 PM Naveen Swamy wrote: > Hi All, > > I am excited to announce that we have an additional mentor for MXNet: Jim > Jagielski, the cofounder of Apache, he brings vast experience in building > and growing successful

Re: Additional mentor to MXNet - Jim Jagielski

2018-06-18 Thread Hagay Lupesko
That is great news! Welcome on board Jim! On Mon, Jun 18, 2018, 15:14 Naveen Swamy wrote: > Hi All, > > I am excited to announce that we have an additional mentor for MXNet: Jim > Jagielski, the cofounder of Apache, he brings vast experience in building > and growing successful communities

[VOTE] Release MXNet version 1.2.1.RC0 (Patch Release)

2018-06-18 Thread Anirudh
Hi, This is the vote to release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.2.1. Voting will start now and close Thursday June 21st 7:00 PM PDT. Link to release candidate 1.2.1.rc0: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.2.1.rc0 View this page for installation instructions:

Re: Nightly tests README accurate?

2018-06-18 Thread Marco de Abreu
Thanks for your input. Do these tests really require a p3 or would g3 be sufficient? We got 2 GPUs on the g3 instances and they are a lot -Marco Indhu schrieb am Mo., 18. Juni 2018, 15:02: > I was working on testing the notebooks from https://gluon.mxnet.io/ as > part > of the nightly tests to

Re: Update on 1.2.1 release

2018-06-18 Thread Anirudh
Hi all, Since there are some issues with publishing scala package to maven, the 1.2.1 vote doesn't have to be blocked for the Scala package release. I will create the vote for 1.2.1.rc0 soon. Anirudh On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 1:27 PM, Anirudh wrote: > Hi Sina, > > RC is available here:

Re: users@mxnet

2018-06-18 Thread YiZhi Liu
I am personally not a big fan of mailing list but agree with Thomas that we may get extra users, which worth a try. On the other hand, I also have concern that we do not have a community big enough to support multiple forums. If people asked questions but got no response, that can be worse than

Re: users@mxnet

2018-06-18 Thread Thomas DELTEIL
I was actually the one stating that we didn't need a user mailing list during the Seattle meetup, given all the reasons already exposed above. However given what proponents of a mailing list said, I personally wouldn't mind adding a new channel as a user mailing list, and monitoring it. There

Re: users@mxnet

2018-06-18 Thread Pedro Larroy
I agree with Tianqi, Eric and others. We shouldn't dilute the community with another forum. Disqus is already working and has healthy participation, you can get an email digest if you so desire. Subscribing to a mailing list to get a question answered is quite a heavyweight investment for many

Re: users@mxnet

2018-06-18 Thread Jim Jagielski
"Mailing list is an obsolete legacy for old projects"... Not true. If you don't understand the reason and rationale and *benefits* of using a mailing list, and why they are so core to how Apache runs projects, I'd be happy to provide some data. > On Jun 18, 2018, at 2:53 PM, Eric Xie wrote: >

Additional mentor to MXNet - Jim Jagielski

2018-06-18 Thread Naveen Swamy
Hi All, I am excited to announce that we have an additional mentor for MXNet: Jim Jagielski, the cofounder of Apache, he brings vast experience in building and growing successful communities around projects. I am sure we will be able to tap into his experience to bring alignment and build a

FOSS BackStage/Apache EU Roadshow summary

2018-06-18 Thread Naveen Swamy
Hi all, I was at the FOSS Backstage/Apache EU Roadshow last week, it covered many important topics in open-source software and governance. I also gave a presentation on Distributed Inference using Apache MXNet and Apache Spark. I also had the opportunity to listen and meet some of the Open

Re: Config for Scala Maven Package

2018-06-18 Thread Naveen Swamy
Anirudh, I have tried to fix and automate parts of the publish process and written down the process. If everything works as expected & since it takes building on 3 different platforms it could take 4-6 hours. We will also continue to automate this further. This is excluding the time it needs to

Re: Nightly tests README accurate?

2018-06-18 Thread Indhu
I was working on testing the notebooks from https://gluon.mxnet.io/ as part of the nightly tests to make sure we notice any API change that could break code in those notebooks. The README in the nightly folder said the tests are being run on machines with multiple GPUs. I was wondering if I have

Single-Machine Topology-aware Communication

2018-06-18 Thread Carl Yang
Hi, Currently, we have two methods for single-machine communication: parameter server and NCCL ring reduction. Both of these methods have some downsides. Parameter server does not differentiate between NVLink connections and PCI-E, so it ends up using the higher latency and slower PCI-E

Re: Nightly tests README accurate?

2018-06-18 Thread Indhu
Thanks Meghna. Do you know what hardware the nightly tests are currently running on? I'm adding some nightly tests. It will be useful to know. On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 9:11 AM Meghna Baijal wrote: > Hi, > This readme is incorrect and I am fixing this as a part of the nightly > tests PR soon. >

Re: Clojure Package

2018-06-18 Thread Carin Meier
Hagay, Thanks! I added the MXNet 1.3 page. Please let me know if you need me to add any other details. - Carin On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 4:01 PM, Hagay Lupesko wrote: > Carin, > > Thanks for contributing so much to MXNet! > I just went through the planned MXNet v1.3 release scope [1], and did

Re: Update on 1.2.1 release

2018-06-18 Thread Anirudh
Hi Sina, RC is available here: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.2.1.rc0 . We are waiting to publish scala package to maven before we start the vote. Naveen, Qing and Andrew are working on this. Anirudh On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 1:18 PM, Afrooze, Sina wrote: > Just

Re: Update on 1.2.1 release

2018-06-18 Thread Afrooze, Sina
Just wondering if there is any estimate on when a 1.2.1 RC may be created? We are using 1.3.0 beta builds because those are the only pip-install-able builds available, but they introduce some instability in our workflow that we'd like to avoid by switching to a 1.2.1 build. - Sina On

Re: Clojure Package

2018-06-18 Thread Hagay Lupesko
Carin, Thanks for contributing so much to MXNet! I just went through the planned MXNet v1.3 release scope [1], and did not see the Clojure package. I think it would be a great addition to MXNet, and initially can be marked as experimental. Did you consider adding it to MXNet 1.3 as an

Re: users@mxnet

2018-06-18 Thread Mu Li
I like the idea to have a user mail list, it should be able to cover the user segment who prefer to use mail lists. Though my concern is how many of us will be volunteered to maintain this list. We have several contributors actively maintain the forum, including Sina, Thom, and Thomas. We need

Re: users@mxnet

2018-06-18 Thread Ivan Serdyuk
Well, there is a trend to for speaking about MXNet (Ukraine). At least I have visited a meetup (with a workshop). On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 9:42 PM, Sebastian wrote: > I am puzzled by the reluctance of this project to setup a user mailinglist > to be honest. > > MXNet has major issues with

Re: users@mxnet

2018-06-18 Thread Eric Xie
Neither TF nor Pytorch uses mailing lists though. In fact I can't think of any deep learning community that uses mailing lists. Mailing list is an obsolete legacy for old projects. No point in bringing it into new projects. Thanks, Eric On 2018/06/18 18:42:12, Sebastian wrote: > I am puzzled

Re: users@mxnet

2018-06-18 Thread Tianqi Chen
IMHO, the approach(mail list or discuss) have nothing to do with the popularity of the project. If you look at TF or pytorch you mentioned. Pytorch uses discuss forum and slack, tf uses stackoverflow for support. Both are popular but not adopting maillist. Note that I know both are both not

Re: users@mxnet

2018-06-18 Thread Barber, Christopher
Whatever you do, make sure to list all these information sources in one easy-to-find place. For instance, it may not be very obvious to anyone that they can read the dev mailing list on lists.apache.org. It is bad if users aren't even aware that other channels exist. On 6/18/18, 2:45 PM,

Re: users@mxnet

2018-06-18 Thread Yasser Zamani
On 6/18/2018 9:18 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > IMO, that is the wrong way to look at it. > > A users@ mailing list is a great, easy, low-cost and low-overhead way of > *increasing* the user community and providing an extra level of support. > Unless there is "strong evidence" that this is NOT

Re: users@mxnet

2018-06-18 Thread Sebastian
I am puzzled by the reluctance of this project to setup a user mailinglist to be honest. MXNet has major issues with attracting a community outside of Amazon (whenever I hear folks talking about deep learning, they usually mention tensorflow, pytorch and keras, but I rarely hear someone talk

Re: Config for Scala Maven Package

2018-06-18 Thread Anirudh
Hi Naveen, Sorry I missed this. Can you please elaborate on how long it takes typically for publishing the scala packages to maven before the vote? I think if there is considerable churn in publishing these packages today, we should not wait for the package for the vote as we may sacrifice our

Re: users@mxnet

2018-06-18 Thread Timur Shenkao
Facebook is definitely a bad idea: we will be dependent on third party provider + unclear who & how manages such group etc. Forum + Confluence + Slack is much better then. On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 7:17 PM, Ivan Serdyuk wrote: > Greetings Barber, Christopher. I had an idea to move out some

Single-Machine Topology-aware Communication

2018-06-18 Thread Carl Yang
Hi, Currently, we have two methods for single-machine communication: parameter server and NCCL ring reduction. Both of these methods have some downsides. Parameter server does not differentiate between NVLink connections and PCI-E, so it ends up using the higher latency and slower PCI-E

Re: users@mxnet

2018-06-18 Thread Ivan Serdyuk
Greetings Barber, Christopher. I had an idea to move out some discussions, covering Java and Scala API, to Facebook. So if somewhere exists a local JUG or Scala user group - they could reflect the topic of discussion. But background stuff could take place on mailing lists, Slack, forum, whatever.

Re: users@mxnet

2018-06-18 Thread Barber, Christopher
I don't understand why you would want a users mailing list when you already have discussion forums. Users that want to be notified of new posts on the forum can configure their notification preferences appropriately. The traffic on the forums is already pretty low. I would think you would not

Re: users@mxnet

2018-06-18 Thread Jim Jagielski
IMO, that is the wrong way to look at it. A users@ mailing list is a great, easy, low-cost and low-overhead way of *increasing* the user community and providing an extra level of support. Unless there is "strong evidence" that this is NOT the case, I would recommend we create the list. > On

Re: Nightly tests README accurate?

2018-06-18 Thread Meghna Baijal
Hi, This readme is incorrect and I am fixing this as a part of the nightly tests PR soon. Thanks, Meghna On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 7:05 AM kellen sunderland < kellen.sunderl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not a commiter, but I would say this is clearly not correct. I would > propose removing the doc