Triton Inference Server

The Triton Inference Server provides a cloud inferencing solution optimized for both CPUs and GPUs. The server provides an inference service via an HTTP or GRPC endpoint, allowing remote clients to request inferencing for any model being managed by the server. For edge deployments, Triton Server is also available as a shared library with an API that allows the full functionality of the server to be included directly in an application.

What's New In 2.18.0

• Triton CPU-only build now supports TensorFlow2 backend for Linux x86.

• Implicit state management can be used for ONNX Runtime and TensorRT backends.

• State initialization from a constant is now supported in Implicit State management.

• PyTorch and TensorFlow models now support batching on Inferentia.

• PyTorch and Python backends are now supported on Jetson.

• ARM Support has been added for the Performance Analyzer and Model Analyzer.

Known Issues

• Triton PIP wheels for ARM SBSA are not available from PyPI and pip will install an incorrect Jetson version of Triton for ARM SBSA. The correct wheel file can be pulled directly from the ARM SBSA SDK image and manually installed.

• Traced models in PyTorch seem to create overflows when int8 tensor values are transformed to int32 on the GPU. See pytorch/pytorch#66930.

• Triton cannot retrieve GPU metrics with MIG-enabled GPU devices (A100 and A30)

• Triton metrics may not work if the host machine is running a separate DCGM agent, either on bare-metal or in a container

• Running a PyTorch TorchScript model using the PyTorch backend, where multiple instances of a model are configured can lead to a slowdown in model execution due to the following PyTorch issue: pytorch/pytorch#27902

Client Libraries and Examples

Ubuntu 20.04 builds of the client libraries and examples are included in this release in the attached v2.18.0_ubuntu2004.clients.tar.gz file. The SDK is also available for as an Ubuntu 20.04 based NGC Container. The SDK container includes the client libraries and examples, Performance Analyzer and Model Analyzer. Some components are also available in the tritonclient pip package. See Getting the Client Libraries for more information on each of these options.

For windows, the client libraries and some examples are available in the attached tritonserver2.18.0-sdk-win.zip file.

Windows Support

A beta release of Triton for Windows is provided in the attached file: tritonserver2.18.0-win.zip. This is a beta release so functionality is limited and performance is not optimized. Additional features and improved performance will be provided in future releases. Specifically in this release:

• HTTP/REST and GRPC endpoints are supported.

• ONNX models are supported by the ONNX Runtime backend. The ONNX Runtime version is 1.10.0. The CPU, CUDA, and TensorRT execution providers are supported. The OpenVINO execution provider is not supported.

• OpenVINO models are supported. The OpenVINO version is 2021.2.

• Prometheus metrics endpoint is not supported.

• System and CUDA shared memory are not supported.

To use the Windows version of Triton, you must install all the necessary dependencies on your Windows system. These dependencies are available in the Dockerfile.win10.min. The Dockerfile includes the following CUDA-related components:

• CUDA 11.5.0

• cuDNN 8.3.2.44

• TensorRT 8.2.2.1

Jetson Jetpack Support

NOTE: Jetson release of Triton is skipped for 2.18.0 (22.01) and the next release will be 2.19.0 (22.02).