Posts tagged neuron2.x
Introducing Neuron packaging and installation changes for Inf1 customers
- 22 November 2022
Starting with Neuron release 2.5, Neuron introduces changes in Neuron packages and installation instructions for Inf1, the following Neuron packages will change names:
New name
Introducing the first release of Neuron 2.x enabling EC2 Trn1 General Availability (GA)
- 10 October 2022
Neuron release 2.3 is the first release of Neuron 2.x that enables GA of the new EC2 Trn1 instances. Neuron release 2.3 extends the latest release of Neuron 1.x (Neuron 1.19.2), adding support for Deep Learning training on the AWS Trainium chips.
Starting with Neuron release 2.3, developers can run Deep Learning training workloads on Trn1 instances, saving training costs by up to 50% over equivalent GPU-based EC2 instances, while achieving the highest training performance in the AWS cloud for popular NLP models. Neuron 2.x introduces new capabilities and major architectural updates to support training neural-networks with the Trn1 instances.
Introducing Packaging and installation changes
- 10 October 2022
Starting with Neuron release 2.3, Neuron introduces changes in Neuron packages and installation instructions.
Announcing Neuron Runtime 1.x (neuron-rtd) end-of-support
- 10 October 2022
Starting with Neuron release 2.3, Neuron components like Neuron System Tools and Neuron Driver will no longer support Neuron Runtime 1.x.
In addition, starting with Neuron release 2.3, the AWS Neuron Runtime Proto GitHub and AWS Neuron Driver GitHub repositories will no longer be supported.