v0.28.1.5

Intel® Optimization for Horovod* v0.28.1.5 Release Notes

Major Features and Improvements

Intel® Optimization for Horovod* is the Intel optimized distributed training framework to extend the official Horovod (based on v0.28.1) which aims at providing distributed ability to run TensorFlow workloads on Intel GPU clusters. This release contains the following major features:

• Supports Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit 2024.2.1.
• Supports TensorFlow 2.15.1 and Intel® Extension for TensorFlow* v2.15.0.1.
• Turns TensorFlow NextPluggableDevice mode by default for Intel Device.
• Updates usage of inplace ccl:reduce_scatter for better performance.
• Supports both scale-up and scale-out on the Intel® Data Center Max GPU clusters.