Hello Steffen,
Can this bug be fixed in 1.4.0 release? It's a significant performance
regression on sparse matrix multiplication.
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/13449
Thanks,
Da
On 11/26/18, 6:42 AM, "Steffen Rochel" <steffenroc...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear MXNet community,
I will be the release manager for the upcoming Apache MXNet 1.4.0 release.
Sergey Kolychev will be co-managing the release and providing help from the
committers side.
A release candidate will be cut on November 29, 2018 and voting will start
December 7, 2018. Release notes have been drafted here [1]. If you have any
additional features in progress and would like to include it in this
release, please assure they have been merged by November 27, 2018. Release
schedule is available here [2].
Feel free to add any other comments/suggestions. Please help to review and
merge outstanding PR's and resolve issues impacting the quality of the
1.4.0 release.
Regards,
Steffen
[1]
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Apache+MXNet+%28incubating%29+1.4.0+Release+Notes
[2]
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Apache+MXNet+%28incubating%29+1.4.0+Release+Plan+and+Status
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 7:15 PM kellen sunderland <
kellen.sunderl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Spoke too soon[1], looks like others have been adding Turing support as
> well (thanks to those helping with this). I believe there's still a few
> changes we'd have to make to claim support though (mshadow CMake changes,
> PyPi package creation tweaks).
>
> 1:
>
>
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/commit/2c3357443ec3d49a11e93c89f278264ce10c2f08
>
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 7:00 PM kellen sunderland <
> kellen.sunderl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey Steffen, I'd like to be able to merge this PR for version 1.4:
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13310 . It fixes a
> > regression in master which causes incorrect feature vectors to be output
> > when using the TensorRT feature. (Thanks to Nathalie for helping me
> track
> > down the root cause of the issue). I'm currently blocked on a CI issue
> I
> > haven't seen before, but hope to have it resolved by EOW.
> >
> > One call-out I would make is that we currently don't support Turing
> > architecture (sm_75). I've been slowly trying to add support, but I
> don't
> > think I'd have capacity to do this done by EOW. Does anyone feel
> strongly
> > we need this in the 1.4 release? From my perspective this will already
> be
> > a strong release without it.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 6:42 PM Steffen Rochel <steffenroc...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks Patrick, lets target to get the PR's merged this week.
> >>
> >> Call for contributions from the community: Right now we have 10 PR
> >> awaiting
> >> merge
> >> <
> >>
>
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3Apr-awaiting-merge+
> >> >
> >> and
> >> we have 61 open PR awaiting review.
> >> <
> >>
>
https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3Apr-awaiting-review
> >> >
> >> I would appreciate if you all can help to review the open PR and the
> >> committers can drive the merge before code freeze for 1.4.0.
> >>
> >> The contributors on the Java API are making progress, but not all
> >> performance issues are resolved. With some luck it should be possible
to
> >> code freeze towards end of this week.
> >>
> >> Are there other critical features/bugs/PR you think need to be included
> in
> >> 1.4.0? If so, please communicate as soon as possible.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Steffen
> >>
> >> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 8:26 PM Zhao, Patric <patric.z...@intel.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Thanks, Steffen. I think there is NO open issue to block the MKLDNN
to
> >> GA
> >> > now.
> >> >
> >> > BTW, several quantization related PRs (#13297,#13260) are under the
> >> review
> >> > and I think it can be merged in this week.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> >
> >> > --Patric
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > > -----Original Message-----
> >> > > From: Steffen Rochel [mailto:steffenroc...@gmail.com]
> >> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 2:57 AM
> >> > > To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org
> >> > > Subject: Re: [Announce] Upcoming Apache MXNet (incubating) 1.4.0
> >> release
> >> > >
> >> > > On Friday the contributors working on Java API discovered a
> potential
> >> > > performance problem with inference using Java API vs. Python.
> >> > Investigation
> >> > > is ongoing.
> >> > > As the Java API is one of the main features for the upcoming
> release,
> >> I
> >> > > suggest to post-pone the code freeze towards end of this week.
> >> > >
> >> > > Please provide feedback and concern about the change in dates for
> code
> >> > > freeze and 1.4.0 release. I will provide updates on progress
> resolving
> >> > the
> >> > > potential performance problem.
> >> > >
> >> > > Patrick - do you think it is possible to resolve the remaining
> issues
> >> on
> >> > MKL-
> >> > > DNN this week, so we can consider GA for MKL-DNN with 1.4.0?
> >> > >
> >> > > Regards,
> >> > > Steffen
> >> > >
> >> > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 5:26 AM Anton Chernov <mecher...@gmail.com>
> >> > > wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > > I'd like to remind everyone that 'code freeze' would mean cutting
> a
> >> > > > v1.4.x release branch and all following fixes would need to be
> >> > backported.
> >> > > > Development on master can be continued as usual.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Best
> >> > > > Anton
> >> > > >
> >> > > > ср, 14 нояб. 2018 г. в 6:04, Steffen Rochel <
> >> steffenroc...@gmail.com>:
> >> > > >
> >> > > > > Dear MXNet community,
> >> > > > > the agreed plan was to establish code freeze for 1.4.0 release
> >> > > > > today. As the 1.3.1 patch release is still ongoing I suggest to
> >> > > > > post-pone the code freeze to Friday 16th November 2018.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Sergey Kolychev has agreed to act as co-release manager for all
> >> > > > > tasks
> >> > > > which
> >> > > > > require committer privileges. If anybody is interested to
> >> volunteer
> >> > > > > as release manager - now is the time to speak up. Otherwise I
> will
> >> > > > > manage
> >> > > > the
> >> > > > > release.
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > Regards,
> >> > > > > Steffen
> >> > > > >
> >> > > >
> >> >
> >>
> >
>
