+1 (binding)

I built MXNet tag 1.8.0.rc1 from source following instructions on [1] using
cmake config file [2] on an Ubuntu 18.04 Deep Learning Base AMI, with CUDA
v11.0 and cuDNN v8.0.2, and tested it by running all non operator tests in
tests/python/gpu/ folder.

[1]
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/blob/1.8.0.rc1/docs/static_site/src/pages/get_started/build_from_source.md#building-mxnet
[2]
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/blob/1.8.0.rc1/config/linux_gpu.cmake

Manu

On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 8:01 PM Dick Carter <[email protected]> wrote:

> +1 (binding)
>
> My testing involved taking the 1.8.0.rc1 codebase and adding the files
> needed to build and run against my internal CI system.  The value here is
> not in the number of build configurations per se, but in the number of
> different GPU architectures tested.  All the gpu unittests under
> ./tests/python/{gpu,train,tensort} passed on machines with: A100, V100,
> TU102, TU104, P100 and P40 GPUs.  Also, all the cpu unittests under
> ./tests/python/unittest passed (on a machine with a V100).
>
> The build was for ubuntu 18.04 with cuda 11.1 and cuDNN 8.0.4 using the
> cmake command:
>
>     cmake -GNinja -S. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -Bbuild \
>     -DUSE_MKLDNN=OFF -DMXNET_CUDA_ARCH="6.0 6.1 7.0 7.5 8.0" \
>     -DUSE_CUDA=ON -DUSE_CUDNN=1 \
>     -DUSE_NCCL=ON \
>     -DUSE_DIST_KVSTORE=ON \
>     -DONNX_NAMESPACE=onnx \
>     -DUSE_NVTX=1 \
>     -DUSE_INTGEMM=OFF \
>     -DUSE_TENSORRT=1
>
> The build includes my as-yet-unmerged PR
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/19298, which corrects
> unittest issues, not the framework's functioning.  Because of the build,
> int gemm and mkldnn functionality was not tested.
>
> On 2020/10/06 21:25:38, "Skalicky, Sam" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Dear MXNet community,
> >
> > This is the vote to release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.8.0.
> Voting will start October 6, 23:59:59 PDT and close on September 9,
> 23:59:59 PDT.
> >
> > Link to release notes:
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/1.8.0+Release+Notes
> >
> > Link to release candidate:
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.8.0.rc1
> >
> > Link to source and signatures on apache dist server:
> > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/mxnet/1.8.0.rc1
> >
> > Please remember to TEST first before voting accordingly:
> > +1 = approve
> > +0 = no opinion
> > -1 = disapprove (provide reason)
> >
> > Here are the changes comparing to 1.8.0.rc0:
> >
> > * backported PRs that were directly merged to v1.7.x (were missing from
> v1.x so also missing in v1.8.x)
> > * fix for oneDNN/intGemm problem
> > * fix for split_and_save
> > * fixes for extensions
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Sam Skalicky
> >
> >
> >
>

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