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#singa-incubating-0.3.0 Release Notes
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SINGA is a general distributed deep learning platform for training big deep
learning models over large datasets. It is designed with an intuitive
programming model based on the layer abstraction. SINGA supports a wide variety
of popular deep learning models.
This release includes following features:
* GPU Support
* [SINGA-131] Implement and optimize hybrid training using both CPU and GPU
* [SINGA-136] Support cuDNN v4
* [SINGA-134] Extend SINGA to run over a GPU cluster
* [SINGA-157] Change the priority of cudnn library and install libsingagpu.so
* Remove Dependences
* [SINGA-156] Remove the dependency on ZMQ for single process training
* [SINGA-155] Remove zookeeper for single-process training
* Python Binding
* [SINGA-126] Python Binding for Interactive Training
* Other Improvements
* [SINGA-80] New Blob Level and Address Level Math Operation Interface
* [SINGA-130] Data Prefetching
* [SINGA-145] New SGD based optimization Updaters: AdaDelta, Adam, AdamMax
* Bugs Fixed
* [SINGA-148] Race condition between Worker threads and Driver
* [SINGA-150] Mesos Docker container failed
* [SIGNA-141] Undesired Hash collision when locating process id to worker…
* [SINGA-149] Docker build fail
* [SINGA-143] The compilation cannot detect libsingagpu.so file