batch-shipyard/CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

Unreleased

2.3.1 - 2017-01-03

Added

• Add support for nvidia-docker with ssh docker tunnel

Fixed

• Fix multi-job bug with jpcmd

2.3.0 - 2016-12-15

Added

• pool ssh command. Please see the usage doc for more information.
• shm_size json property added to the json object within the tasks array of a job. Please see the configuration doc for more information.
• SSH, Interactive Sessions and Docker SSH Tunnel guide

Changed

• Improve usability of the generated SSH docker tunnel script

2.2.0 - 2016-12-09

Added

• CNTK-CPU-Infiniband-IntelMPI recipe

Changed

• /opt/intel is now automatically mounted once again for infiniband-enabled containers on SUSE SLES-HPC hosts.

Fixed

• Fix masked KeyErrors on input_data and output_data
• Fix SAS key generation for data movement
• Typo in ssh public key check on Windows prevented pool add actions
• Pin version of tfm docker image on data transfers

2.1.0 - 2016-11-30

Added

• Allow --configdir, --credentials, --config, --jobs, --pool config options to be specified as environment variables. Please see the usage doc for more information.
• Added subcommand listskus to the pool command to list available VM configurations (publisher, offer, sku) for the Batch account

Changed

• Nodeprep now references cascade and tfm docker images by version instead of latest to prevent breaking changes affecting older versions. Docker builds of cascade and tfm based on latest commits are now disabled.

Fixed

• Cascade docker image run not propagating exit code

2.0.0 - 2016-11-23

Added

• Support for any Internet accessible container registry, including Azure Container Registry. Please see the configuration doc for information on how to integrate with a private container registry.

Changed

• GPU driver for STANDARD_NC instances defined in the gpu:nvidia_driver:source property is no longer required. If omitted, an NVIDIA driver will be downloaded automatically with an NVIDIA License agreement prompt. For STANDARD_NV instances, a driver URL is still required.
• Docker container name auto-tagging now prepends the job id in order to prevent conflicts in case of un-named simultaneous tasks from multiple jobs
• Update CNTK docker images to 2.0beta4 and optimize GPU images for use with NVIDIA K80/M60
• Update Caffe docker image, default to using OpenBLAS over ATLAS, and optimize GPU images for use with NVIDIA K80/M60
• Update MXNet GPU docker image optimized for use with NVIDIA K80/M60
• Update TensorFlow docker images to 0.11.0 and optimize GPU images for use with NVIDIA K80/M60

Fixed

• Cascade thread exceptions will terminate with non-zero exit code
• Some improvements with node prep and reboots
• Task termination will only issue docker rm if the container exists

2.0.0rc3 - 2016-11-14 (SC16 Edition)

Added

• install_conda_windows.cmd helper script for installing Batch Shipyard under Anaconda for Windows
• Added relative_destination_path json property for files ingress into node destinations. This allows arbitrary specification of where ingressed files should be placed relative to the destination path.
• Added ability to ingress directly into the host without the requirement of GlusterFS for pools with one compute node. A GlusterFS shared volume is required for pools with more than one compute node for direct to pool data ingress.
• New commands and options:
  • pool udi: Update docker images on all compute nodes in a pool. --image and --digest options can restrict the scope of the update.
  • data stream: --disk will stream the file as binary to disk instead of as text to the local console
  • data listfiles: --jobid and --taskid allows scoping of the list files action
  • jobs listtasks: --jobid allows scoping of list tasks to a specific job
  • jobs add: --tail allows tailing the specified file for the last job and task added
• Keras+Theano-CPU and Keras+Theano-GPU recipes
• Keras+Theano-CPU added as an option in the quickstart guide

Changed

• Breaking Change: Properties of docker_registry have changed significantly to support eventual integration with the Azure Container Registry service. Credentials for docker logins have moved to the credentials json file. Please see the configuration doc for more information.
• files data ingress no longer creates a directory where files to be uploaded exist. For example if uploading from a path /a/b/c, the directory c is no longer created at the destination. Instead all files found in /a/b/c will be immediately placed directly at the destination path with sub-directories preserved. This behavior can be modified with the relative_destination_path property.
• CUDA_CACHE_* variables are now set for GPU jobs such that compiled targets pass-through to the host. This allows subsequent container invocations within the same node the ability to reuse cached PTX JIT targets.
• batch_shipyard:storage_entity_prefix is now optional and defaults to shipyard if not specified.
• Major internal configuration/settings refactor

Fixed

• Pool resize down with wait
• More Python2/3 compatibility issues
• Ensure pools that deploy GlusterFS volumes have more than 1 node

2.0.0rc2 - 2016-11-02

Added

• install.sh install/setup helper script
• shipyard execution helper script created via install.sh
• generated_sas_expiry_days json property to config json for the ability to override the default number of days generated SAS keys are valid for.
• New options on commands/subcommands:
  • jobs add: --recreate recreate any jobs which have completed and use the same id
  • jobs termtasks: --force force docker kill to tasks even if they are in completed state
  • pool resize: --wait wait for completion of resize
• HPCG-Infiniband-IntelMPI and HPLinpack-Infiniband-IntelMPI recipes

Changed

• Default SAS expiry time used for resource files and data movement changed from 7 to 30 days.
• Pools failing to start will now automatically retrieve stdout.txt and stderr.txt to the current working directory under poolid/<node ids>/std{out,err}.txt. These files can be inspected locally and submitted as context for GitHub issues if pertinent.
• Pool resizing will now attempt to add an SSH user on the new nodes if an SSH public key is referenced or found in the invocation directory
• Improve installation doc

Fixed

• Improve Python2/3 compatibility
• Unicode literals warning with Click
• Config file loading issue in some contexts
• Documentation typos

2.0.0rc1 - 2016-10-28

Added

• Comprehensive data movement support. Please see the data movement guide and 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 Storage, Azure File Storage, or another Azure Batch Task 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
    • Entire node-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 successful completion of a task
• Credential encryption support. Please see the credential encryption guide and configuration doc for more information.
• Experimental support for OpenSSH with HPN patches on Ubuntu
• Support pool resize up with GlusterFS
• Support GlusterFS volume options
• Configurable path to place files generated by pool add or pool asu commands
• MXNet-CPU and Torch-CPU as options in the quickstart guide
• Update CNTK recipes for 1.7.2 and switch multinode/multigpu samples to MNIST
• MXNet-CPU and MXNet-GPU recipes

Changed

• Breaking Change: All new CLI experience with proper multilevel commands. Please see usage doc for more information.
  • Added new commands: cert, data
  • Added many new convenience subcommands
  • --filespec is now delimited by , instead of :
• 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.
• The name property of a task json object in the jobs specification is no longer required for multi-instance tasks. If not specified, name defaults to id for all task types.
• data stream no longer has an arbitrary max streaming time; the action will stream the file indefinitely until the task completes
• Validate container with storage_entity_prefix for length issues
• pool del action now cleans up and deletes some storage containers immediately afterwards (with confirmation prompts)
• /opt/intel is no longer automatically mounted for infiniband-enabled containers on SUSE SLES-HPC hosts. Please see the configuration doc on how to manually map this directory if required. OpenLogic CentOS-HPC hosts remain unchanged.
• 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
• Python2 compatibility issues with file encoding
• Allow shipyard.py to be invoked outside of the root of the GitHub cloned base directory
• TensorFlow-Distributed recipe issues

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