NVIDIA cuDNN
NVIDIA cuDNN
The NVIDIA CUDA® Deep Neural Network library (cuDNN) is a GPU-accelerated library of primitives for deep neural networks. cuDNN provides highly tuned implementations for standard routines such as forward and backward convolution, pooling, normalization, and activation layers.
Deep learning researchers and framework developers worldwide rely on cuDNN for high-performance GPU acceleration. It allows them to focus on training neural networks and developing software applications rather than spending time on low-level GPU performance tuning. cuDNN accelerates widely used deep learning frameworks, including Caffe2, Chainer, Keras, MATLAB, MxNet, PyTorch, and TensorFlow. For access to NVIDIA optimized deep learning framework containers that have cuDNN integrated into frameworks, visit NVIDIA GPU CLOUD to learn more and get started.
What’s New in cuDNN 8
cuDNN 8 is optimized for A100 GPUs delivering up to 5x higher performance versus V100 GPUs out of the box and includes new optimizations and APIs for applications such as conversational AI and computer vision. It has been redesigned for ease of use, application integration, and offers greater flexibility to developers.
cuDNN 8 highlights include:
- Tuned for peak performance on NVIDIA A100 GPUs including new TensorFloat-32, FP16, and FP32
- Redesigned low-level API provides direct access to cuDNN kernels for greater control and performance tuning
- Backward compatibility layer maintains support for cuDNN 7.x letting developers manage their transition to the new cuDNN 8 API
- New optimizations for computer vision, speech, and language understanding networks
- Fuse operators to accelerate convolutional neural networks with a new API
cuDNN 8 is now available as six smaller libraries, providing granularity when integrating into applications. Developers can download cuDNN or pull it from framework containers on NGC.
Read the latest cuDNN release notes for a detailed list of new features and enhancements.
Key Features
- Tensor Core acceleration for all popular convolutions including 2D, 3D, Grouped, Depth-wise separable, and Dilated with NHWC and NCHW inputs and outputs
- Optimized kernels for computer vision and speech models including ResNet, ResNext, SSD, MaskRCNN, Unet, VNet, BERT, GPT-2, Tacotron2 and WaveGlow
- Supports FP32, FP16, and TF32 floating point formats and INT8, and UINT8 integer formats
- Arbitrary dimension ordering, striding, and sub-regions for 4d tensors means easy integration into any neural net implementation
- Speed up fused operations on any CNN architecture
cuDNN is supported on Windows and Linux with Ampere, Turing, Volta, Pascal, Maxwell, and Kepler GPU architectures in data center and mobile GPUs.
cuDNN Accelerated Frameworks
Learn More
- NVIDIA Deep Learning SDK documentation
- Deep Dive into cuDNN 8 Webinar
- Blogs on Programming Tensor Cores in cuDNN
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- Find other cuDNN developers on NVIDIA Developer Forums
- For questions or to provide feedback, please contact cuDNN@nvidia.com
- To file bugs or report an issue,register on NVIDIA Developer Zone