v1.0.0

v1.0.0

This is ChainerMN v1.0.0, the first stable version. This version includes several new features including NCCL2 support, model parallelism, new examples.

List of Changes

Features

• NCCL2 support (#105)
• MultiNodeBatchNormalization (#106)
• Model parallel interface
• DatasetSizeError (#111)
• Non-CUDA-aware communicator (#93)
• shuffle option to chainermn.scatter_dataset (#92)

Enhancement

• Refactor directories and files (#117)
• Adding comments (#107)
• Clear names for functions and variables (#103)

Examples

• Dcgan example (#99, thanks @corochann!)
• Seq2seq example (#63)
• Model-parallel MNIST example (#98)

Documents

• ChainerMN logo (#110)
• Mention sudo's env-var issue in the installation document (#87)
• Mention --gpu option in the MNIST tutorial (#85)
• Refactored API reference (#118)
• Minor fixes (#116, #90, #86)

Bug Fixes

• None to the type specification (#109)
• Fix imagenet models for v2 (#104, thanks @mitmul!)

Tests

• Add MNIST test on GPU (#113)
• Fix the false success on Travis-CI (#112)