RELEASENOTES.md

AWS OFI NCCL Release notes

Supported Distributions

• Amazon Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• CentOS 7

v0.9.2 release notes

This release introduces changes required to support NCCLv2.4 and fixes race condition during connection establishment by removing FI_SOURCE requirement.

New Features:

• Support NCCL provided MR register/deregister APIs.

Bug Fixes:

• Remove FI_SOURCE requirement for providers.
• Fix travis CI to build with NCCLv2.4.

Testing: The plugin has been tested with following libfabric providers:

• tcp;ofi_rxm
• sockets
• verbs;ofi_rxm

v0.9.1 release notes

This release makes improvements to the building and CI infrastructure. It also includes several bug fixes. Details below:

New Features:

• Change build system to use autoconf, automake and libtool
• Add support for continuous integration using Travis CI
• Add official support for libfabric v1.7.x

Bug Fixes:

• Remove hard-coded CUDA path when linking test binaries.
• Provide request contexts to all libfabric send/recv calls
• Readme updates and other minor fixes

Testing: The plugin has been tested with following libfabric providers:

• tcp;ofi_rxm
• sockets
• verbs;ofi_rxm
• psm2
• efa;ofi_rxr

v0.9 release notes

First public commit as part of preview announcement

AWS OFI NCCL supports NCCL v2.3.7+ and requires libfabric v1.6.x+. Please note that current master of libfabric is broken for rxm providers and would require PR-4641.

The plugin has been tested with following libfabric providers:

• tcp;ofi_rxm
• sockets
• verbs;ofi_rxm