batch-shipyard/CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

Unreleased

Added

• Comprehensive data movement support. Please see the configuration doc for more information.
  • Ingress from local machine with files in global configuration
    • To GlusterFS shared volume
    • To Azure Blob Storage
    • To Azure File Storage
  • Ingress from Azure Blob or File Storage with input_data in pool and jobs configuration
    • Pool-level: to compute nodes
    • Job-level: to compute nodes prior to running the specified job
    • Task-level: to compute nodes prior to running a task of a job
  • Egress to local machine as actions
    • Single file from compute node
    • Entire task-level directories from compute node
  • Egress to Azure Blob of File Storage with output_data in jobs configuration
    • Task-level: to Azure Blob or File Storage on succesful completion of a task
• Experimental support for OpenSSH with HPN patches on Ubuntu
• Additional actions: ingressdata, gettaskallfiles, listjobs, listtasks. Please see the usage doc for more information.
• Torch-CPU as an option in quickstart guide

Changed

• Breaking Change: ssh_docker_tunnel in the pool_specification has been replaced by the ssh property. generate_tunnel_script has been renamed to generate_docker_tunnel_script. Please see the configuration doc for more information.
• streamfile no longer has an arbitrary max streaming time; the action will stream the file indefinitely until the task completes
• Ensure storage_entity_prefix is valid and validate container name lengths
• delpool action now cleans up and deletes some storage containers immediately afterwards (with confirmation prompts)
• Modularized code base

Fixed

• GlusterFS mount ownership/permissions fixed such that SSH users can read/write
• Azure File shared volume setup when invoked from Windows

1.1.0 - 2016-10-05

Added

• Transparent Infiniband assist for SUSE SLES-HPC 12-SP1 image
• Add version for shipyard.py script
• NAMD-GPU, OpenFOAM-Infiniband-IntelMPI, Torch-CPU, Torch-GPU recipes

Changed

• GlusterFS mountpoint is now within $AZ_BATCH_NODE_SHARED_DIR so files can be viewed/downloaded with Batch APIs
• NAMD-Infiniband-IntelMPI recipe now contains a real Docker image link

Fixed

• GlusterFS not properly starting on Ubuntu

1.0.0 - 2016-09-22

Added

• Automated GlusterFS support
• Added configdir argument for convenience in loading configuration files, please see the usage documentation for more details
• Ability to retrieve files from live compute nodes in addition to streaming
• Added filespec argument for non-interactive streamfile and gettaskfile actions
• Added .gitattributes to designate Unix line-endings for text files
• Sample configuration files for each recipe
• Caffe-CPU, OpenFOAM-TCP-OpenMPI, TensorFlow-CPU, TensorFlow-Distributed recipes

Changed

• Updated configuration docs to detail which properties are required vs. those that are optional
• SSH tunnel user is now added with a default expiry time of 7 days which can be modified through the pool configuration file
• Configuration is not output to console by default, -v flag added for verbose output
• Determinstic remote login settings output (node, ip, port) that can be easily parsed
• Update Azurefile Docker Volume Driver plugin to 0.5.1

Fixed

• Cascade (container-only) start issue with no private registry
• Non-shipyard docker image node prep with new azure-storage package
• Inter-node communication not specified key error on addpool
• Cross-platform fixes:
  • Temp file creation used for environment variables
  • SSH tunnel creation disabled on Windows if public key is not supplied
• Batch Shipyard Docker container not getting cleaned up if peer-to-peer is disabled

Removed

• gpu:nvidia_driver:version property removed from pool configuration and is no longer required as the version is now automatically detected

0.2.0 - 2016-09-08

Added

• Transparent GPU support for Azure N-Series VMs
• New recipes added: Caffe-GPU, CNTK-CPU-OpenMPI, CNTK-GPU-OpenMPI, FFmpeg-GPU, NAMD-Infiniband-IntelMPI, NAMD-TCP, TensorFlow-GPU

Changed

• Multi-instance tasks now automatically complete their job by default. This removes the need to run the cleanmijobs action in the shipyard tool. Please refer to the multi-instance documentation for more information and limitations.
• Dumb back-off policy for DHT router convergence
• Optimzed Docker image storage location for Azure VMs
• Prompts added for destructive operations in the shipyard tool

Fixed

• Incorrect file location of node prep finished
• Blocking wait for global resource on pool can now be disabled
• Incorrect process call to query for docker image size when peer-to-peer transfer is disabled
• Use azure-storage 0.33.0 to fix Edm.Int64 overflow issue

0.1.0 - 2016-09-01

Added

• Initial release