March 12th for RC1 looks good to me. That will give us enough time to stress-test recent GPU and Keras2DML fixes/features.
Regards, Niketan. > On Mar 1, 2018, at 5:23 PM, Matthias Boehm <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm sure you've seen that Spark 2.3 just got released. This lines up > beautifully with our own SystemML 1.1 release. Accordingly, I would > recommend to use Spark 2.3 for our due diligence algorithm-level Q/A. How > about we shoot for an RC1 by March 12? This should give enough time to run > over reasonably large data and fix all related issues. > > Regards, > Matthias > >> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 12:51 PM, Matthias Boehm <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> yes, absolutely. Here is a list of new features and improvements - please >> feel free to extend as needed: >> >> 1) Extended Caffe2DML and Keras2DML APIs >> 2) Support for large-dense blocks >16GB in CP >> 3) New builtin functions ifelse, xor, as well as and/or/not over matrices >> 4) Single-precision support for native conv2d and mm operations. >> 5) Performance features and correctness of ultra-sparse operations >> 6) Codegen: new plan cache, nary cbind >> 7) Parfor: result merge with accumulators +=, reduced initialization >> overhead >> 8) Compiler improvements: avoid unnecessary spark instructions, corrected >> memory estimates >> >> Until the RC, I'd like to support all deep learning builtin functions in >> codegen, add a couple of pending parfor improvements, and potentially do a >> first cut of the compiler/runtime integration for parameter servers. >> >> Regards, >> Matthias >> >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Niketan Pansare <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> +1. >>> >>> We should consider including single precision native BLAS in the release >>> notes as well. If possible, we should add JNI wrappers for PowerPC, Windows >>> and Mac too in this release. >>> >>>> On Feb 6, 2018, at 12:27 PM, Berthold Reinwald <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> sure. >>>> >>>> Makes sense. Codegen and Keras2DML made good progress, and many other >>>> fixes/improvements. >>>> >>>> What else do we want time/track/highlight for it? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Berthold Reinwald >>>> IBM Almaden Research Center >>>> office: (408) 927 2208; T/L: 457 2208 >>>> e-mail: [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> From: Matthias Boehm <[email protected]> >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Date: 02/05/2018 11:05 PM >>>> Subject: Release Planning >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> since our 1.0 release in Dec, we already got a number enhancements and >>> new >>>> features in, so I think it would be good to discuss the timeline for our >>>> next SystemML 1.1 release. How about, we target mid March for a first >>> RC? >>>> Also, Berthold would you be willing to serve again as the release >>> manager? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Matthias >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>
