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Posted to commits@singa.apache.org by wa...@apache.org on 2015/09/16 05:25:50 UTC
[7/7] incubator-singa git commit: SINGA-68 Preparation for Release --
License etc.
SINGA-68 Preparation for Release -- License etc.
Add RELEASE_NOTES file to describe the features, bugs, etc.
Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-singa/repo
Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-singa/commit/be035dff
Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-singa/tree/be035dff
Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-singa/diff/be035dff
Branch: refs/heads/master
Commit: be035dfffaf1948eea0dfb9b79fc3d183fdc5bd9
Parents: 7486647
Author: Wei Wang <wa...@comp.nus.edu.sg>
Authored: Fri Sep 11 17:27:07 2015 +0800
Committer: wang sheng <wa...@gmail.com>
Committed: Wed Sep 16 11:09:25 2015 +0800
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+Release Notes - SINGA - Version singa-incubating-0.1-rc0
+-----------------------------------------
+This release includes these features:
+
+ * Job management
+ * [SINGA-3] - Use Zookeeper to check stopping (finish) time of the system
+ * [SINGA-16] - Runtime Process id Management
+ * [SINGA-25] - Setup glog output path
+ * [SINGA-26] - Run distributed training in a single command
+ * [SINGA-30] - Enhance easy-to-use feature and support concurrent jobs
+ * [SINGA-33] - Automatically launch a number of processes in the cluster
+ * [SINGA-34] - Support external zookeeper service
+ * [SINGA-38] - Support concurrent jobs
+ * [SINGA-39] - Avoid ssh in scripts for single node environment
+ * [SINGA-43] - Remove Job-related output from workspace
+ * [SINGA-56] - No automatic launching of zookeeper service
+
+ * Installation with GNU Auto tool
+ * [SINGA-4] - Refine thirdparty-dependency installation
+ * [SINGA-13] - Separate intermediate files of compilation from source files
+ * [SINGA-17] - Add root permission within thirdparty/install.
+ * [SINGA-27] - Generate python modules for proto objects
+ * [SINGA-53] - Add lmdb compiling options
+ * [SINGA-62] - Remove building scrips and auxiliary files
+ * [SINGA-67] - Add singatest into build targets
+
+ * Distributed training
+ * [SINGA-7] - Implement shared memory Hogwild algorithm
+ * [SINGA-8] - Implement distributed Hogwild
+ * [SINGA-19] - Slice large Param objects for load-balance
+ * [SINGA-29] - Update NeuralNet class to enable layer partition type customization
+ * [SINGA-24] - Implement Downpour training framework
+ * [SINGA-32] - Implement AllReduce training framework
+ * [SINGA-57] - Improve Distributed Hogwild
+
+ * Training algorithms for different model categories
+ * [SINGA-9] - Add Support for Restricted Boltzman Machine (RBM) model
+ * [SINGA-10] - Add Support for Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN)
+
+ * Checkpoint and restore
+ * [SINGA-12] - Support Checkpoint and Restore
+
+ * Unit test
+ * [SINGA-64] - Add the test module for utils/common
+
+ * Programming model
+ * [SINGA-36] - Refactor job configuration, driver program and scripts
+ * [SINGA-37] - Enable users to set parameter sharing in model configuration
+ * [SINGA-54] - Refactor job configuration to move fields in ModelProto out
+ * [SINGA-55] - Refactor main.cc and singa.h
+ * [SINGA-61] - Support user defined classes
+ * [SINGA-65] - Add an example of writing user-defined layers
+
+ * Other features
+ * [SINGA-6] - Implement thread-safe singleton
+ * [SINGA-18] - Update API for displaying performance metric
+
+Some bugs are fixed during the development of this release
+ * [SINGA-2] Check failed: zsock_connect
+ * [SINGA-5] Server early terminate when zookeeper singa folder is not initially empty
+ * [SINGA-15] Fixg a bug from ConnectStub function which gets stuck for connecting layer_dealer_
+ * [SINGA-22] Cannot find openblas library when it is installed in default path
+ * [SINGA-23] Libtool version mismatch error.
+ * [SINGA-28] Fix a bug from topology sort of Graph
+ * [SINGA-42] Issue when loading checkpoints
+ * [SINGA-44] A bug when reseting metric values
+ * [SINGA-46] Fix a bug in updater.cc to scale the gradients
+ * [SINGA-47] Fix a bug in data layers that leads to out-of-memory when group size is too large
+ * [SINGA-48] Fix a bug in trainer.cc that assigns the same NeuralNet instance to workers from diff groups
+ * [SINGA-49] Fix a bug in HandlePutMsg func that sets param fields to invalid values
+ * [SINGA-66] Fix bugs in Worker::RunOneBatch function and ClusterProto
+
+Some tasks should be done in the next release
+ * [SINGA-11] Start SINGA using Mesos
+ * [SINGA-31] Extend Blob to support xpu (cpu or gpu)
+ * [SINGA-35] Add random number generators
+ * [SINGA-40] Support sparse Param update
+ * [SINGA-41] Support single node single GPU training
+
+The current code depends on the following external libraries:
+ * glog (New BSD)
+ * google-protobuf (New BSD)
+ * openblas (New BSD)
+ * zeromq (LGPLv3 + static link exception)
+ * czmq (Mozilla Public License Version 2.0)
+ * zookeeper (Apache 2.0)
+ * lmdb (OpenLDAP)
+
+Some source files/folders include third-party code:
+ * include/gtest (New BSD)
+ * include/mshadow (Apache 2.0)
+ * include/utils/tinydir.h (BSD 2-clause)
+ * caffe <include/utils/blob.h, src/utils/blob.cc, include/utils/common.h, src/utils/common.cc> (BSD 2-clause)