Major new features in 2.9.2 since 2.8.x:
- Autoscale support with tunable scenario-based automation
- Autopool support
- Task factory support
- Recurring job support (job schedules)
- Job live/hot migration support
- CentOS-HPC 7.3 support for
STANDARD_NC24Rnodes with both Infiniband/RDMA and GPUs - Summary statistics with
pool statsandjobs stats - Azure function/app service site extension is now automatically created for each tagged release
This release also includes Jupyter Notebooks for Deep Learning on Batch Shipyard. Thanks to @msalvaris and @thdeltei for helping out with this contribution.
Recipe additions:
- Caffe2
- CNTK on Infiniband+GPUs
Please see the Change Log for a full list of changes for each release.
This release completes the 2.9.0 Milestone. Note that release 2.9.0 was removed due to various build issues with site extensions used for Azure Function integration. It is recommended to upgrade to this version or later.