Release notes for IBM Spectrum Conductor Deep Learning Impact 1.2

IBM Spectrum Conductor Deep Learning Impact 1.2 is available as an add-on to IBM Spectrum Conductor 2.3. Read this document to find important installation information or changes to the product. You can also learn about product updates, compatibility issues, limitations, and known problems.

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Description

IBM Spectrum Conductor Deep Learning Impact 1.2 is an add-on to IBM Spectrum Conductor 2.3 that provides deep learning capabilities to your IBM Spectrum Conductor environment.

IBM Spectrum Conductor Deep Learning Impact provides robust, end-to-end workflow support for deep learning application logic. This includes the complete lifecycle management from installation and configuration, data ingest and preparation, building, optimizing, and training and testing the model.

IBM Spectrum Conductor Deep Learning Impact is built on IBM Spectrum Conductor, a highly available and resilient multitenant distributed framework, providing Apache Spark and deep learning application lifecycle support, centralized management and monitoring, end-to-end security, and support from IBM.

Announcement

The IBM Spectrum Conductor Deep Learning Impact 1.2 announcement is available at http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.wss.

Packages

The following installation package is available from IBM Passport Advantage:
  • IBM Spectrum Conductor Deep Learning Impact 1.2 Installation for Linux (64-bit) (dli-1.2.0.0_x86_64.bin)
Note: The IBM Spectrum Conductor Deep Learning Impact 1.2 Installation for Linux for POWER LE (64-bit) (dli-1.2.0.0_ppc64le.bin) package is available with IBM PowerAI Enterprise 1.1.1 from IBM Passport Advantage.

Key prerequisites

IBM Spectrum Conductor Deep Learning Impact 1.2 requires IBM Spectrum Conductor 2.3. All hosts must use x86 hardware and must have either Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.5 or Ubuntu 16.04 installed. For more information, see Requirements for IBM Spectrum Conductor Deep Learning Impact 1.2.

Deep learning frameworks

IBM Spectrum Conductor Deep Learning Impact 1.2 requires at least one deep learning framework to be installed.
  • TensorFlow 1.10
  • Caffe 1.0
For more information, see Supported deep learning frameworks.

Installation

For information on installing IBM Spectrum Conductor Deep Learning Impact 1.2, see Installing IBM Spectrum Conductor Deep Learning Impact.
Note: Before installing IBM Spectrum Conductor Deep Learning Impact 1.2, make sure that you install all the latest fixes for IBM Spectrum Conductor 2.3.

Applying fixes

Interim fixes and fix packs for IBM Spectrum Conductor Deep Learning Impact 1.2 and IBM Spectrum Conductor 2.3 are available from IBM Fix Central.

Limitations and known issues

Limitations, and known problems are documented as individual technotes in the IBM® Support Portal. As problems are discovered and resolved, IBM Support Portal updates the knowledge base. By searching the knowledge base, you can find workarounds or solutions to problems.

For limitations and known problems that exist in IBM Spectrum Conductor Deep Learning Impact 1.2, see Limitations and known issues.