Fwd: [RESTARTING][VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.4.0.rc2

2019-02-12 Thread Justin Mclean
forgot to CC dev > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Justin Mclean > Subject: Re: [RESTARTING][VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version > 1.4.0.rc2 > Date: 13 February 2019 at 6:43:48 pm AEDT > To: Michael Wall > > Hi, > >> Option 1: >> Do nothing. I don't know how a RESTARTED vote

Re: [RESTARTING][VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.4.0.rc2

2019-02-12 Thread Sheng Zha
Thanks for the detailed explanation and the help on educating the community, Michael. People on the general list are spending time to help us get the licensing right. If possible, I think we should be thankful by treating their feedbacks more seriously, making the efforts to quickly fix the

RE: [VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.4.0.rc2

2019-02-12 Thread Zhao, Patric
Update, the issue is fixed and the new patch release is out MKL-DNN 0.17.4. Tao filed a PR to update the MKLDNN version in the release 1.4.X https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/14141 Thanks all of your helps :) --Patric > -Original Message- > From: Zhao, Patric

Re: [RESTARTING][VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.4.0.rc2

2019-02-12 Thread Aaron Markham
I think I misunderstood the 3rd party reference to imply Uber instead of the 3rd party folder. I feel the same regardless, and defer to the experts on what do do about the 3rd party folder. As for the other license issues, we don't have to add license info to readme or informational files. It is

Re: [RESTARTING][VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.4.0.rc2

2019-02-12 Thread Michael Wall
Hi Qing, I see 3 options Option 1: Do nothing. I don't know how a RESTARTED vote works. Steffen counted the binding votes from the before it was restarted. Unsure if that actually works. There has been one +1 votes since the restart, but it is non-binding as best I can tell even though it

[DISCUSS] upgrade openblas

2019-02-12 Thread Qing Lan
Dear Community, Recently I observed a performance regression on a MXNet after switching Atlas to openblas 0.3.3. OpenBLAS community address this issue in their 0.3.5 release. So I plan to upgrade openblas in our publish system to gain the performance improvement, here to discuss if anyone had

Re: [RESTARTING][VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.4.0.rc2

2019-02-12 Thread Qing Lan
Hi Michael, Could you please guide how to proceed with this? Given that we have a possibility of announcing MXNet support in Horovod with their next release and this would help MXNet increase our visibility. Thanks, Qing On 2/12/19, 2:16 PM, "Michael Wall" wrote: Team, Here

Re: [RESTARTING][VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.4.0.rc2

2019-02-12 Thread Michael Wall
Team, Here is my read on the situation. The vote has been canceled. Justin's point was that a -1 doesn't mean you must cancel a vote for the reasons he outlined. But here the vote needs to be restarted and the issue Luciano found needs to be addressed. That issue is that there are files in

Re: [RESTARTING][VOTE] Release Apache MXNet (incubating) version 1.4.0.rc2

2019-02-12 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi - Third party vendor considerations do not matter. Are you voting +1 with your Apache hat on or your Amazon hat? Regards, Dave > On Feb 11, 2019, at 10:16 PM, Lin Yuan wrote: > > +1 binding > Horovod is going to release it's 0.16.0 in the coming week with MXNet > integration. We need to

Re: First class support for MxNet?

2019-02-12 Thread Zach Boldyga
Really interesting stuff, Iblis. Thanks for sharing! I'm excited to stick around and absorb :D Zach Boldyga Scalabull | Founder 1 (866) 846-8771 x 101 On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 6:25 AM Carin Meier wrote: > +100 on Iblis's thoughts: > > "We know tools and frameworks keep changing. > People

Re: libjpegturbo

2019-02-12 Thread Sheng Zha
MXNet pip statically links with libturbojpeg that's built from source, not from debian package. The script for linux and mac can be found here: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/blob/master/tools/dependencies/libturbojpeg.sh#L22 -sz On 2019/02/12 07:46:30, Per da Silva wrote: > Hello

Re: [Announce] Runtime feature detection

2019-02-12 Thread Lin Yuan
Thanks, Pedro for contributing this long awaiting feature. I can immediately use it for Horovod project now. Bravo! Lin On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 2:42 AM Pedro Larroy wrote: > An update on this topic, Sheng just merged the refinements to the > feature detection so it's now a single API call. (

Berlin recurring user group

2019-02-12 Thread Per da Silva
Hello Dev, This is a friendly reminder that Berlin office hours will be held today at 6pm-7pm (CEST) / 9am-10am (PST). More info here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/Apache+MXNet+%28Incubating%29+User+Groups+recurring+meetings https://chime.aws/1611907695 Thanks! Per

Re: Benchmarking MXNet with different compilers and different OpenMP implementations (results)

2019-02-12 Thread Aaron Markham
This is really great research. I've often wondered what the difference really is, and why it has to be so complicated. It seems the answer is there isn't much difference and it shouldn't be as complex. As for your next steps, would you propose that cmake be brought up to parity? It seems strange

Re: [Discussion] Remove bundled llvm OpenMP

2019-02-12 Thread Anton Chernov
I would like to propose a possible alternative solution for consideration. If keeping llvm OpenMP as a submodule is inevitable one could make following adjustments: Since compilers try to find their own OpenMP library implicitly, MXNet needs to ensure that only the bundled version is found.

Benchmarking MXNet with different compilers and different OpenMP implementations (results)

2019-02-12 Thread Anton Chernov
Dear MXNet community, Due to multiple problems related to OpenMP and stale proposed change [1] we have been working on gathering performance data on the impact of using different OpenMP implementations with MXNet (great thanks to Stanislav Tsukrov for the hard work). The results can be found here

Re: [Announce] Runtime feature detection

2019-02-12 Thread Pedro Larroy
An update on this topic, Sheng just merged the refinements to the feature detection so it's now a single API call. ( https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13964 ). Thank you Sheng for the reviews. Please use this functionality to check for capabilities of MXNet at runtime such as Cuda,

Re: [Discussion] Remove bundled llvm OpenMP

2019-02-12 Thread Anton Chernov
Recent benchmarking results have been published here [1]. Experiments compare different OpenMP implementations as well as binaries compiled with different compilers including GCC, Clang and ICC. During experimentation another issues with mixing up libraries was identified and described here [2].

Re: RE: Third-party package tests for MXNet nightly builds

2019-02-12 Thread Felix Hieber
Thank you all for your responses so far. Sheng, I understand your concerns about tight coupling, but would this separate CI pipeline really create such a problematic coupling, given that I was proposing this pipeline to be entirely non-blocking to MXNet? Monitoring the upstream library (MXNet)