January 24, 2020

Agenda

• Introductions

• Name, role, how you use Horovod in your work

• LFAI: Path to graduation (Jacqueline)

• Upcoming talks / blog posts / announcements

• Jan 29: Seattle Applied Deep Learning Meetup, Fardin Abdi (Uber)

• Feb 27: Scaled ML (Bay Area), Josh Romero (NVIDIA)

• Outstanding issues:

• Continuous integration

• AWS Credits and plan for long term support

• Ideas to reduce costs from GPU tests

• TensorFlow Keras 2.1 support (#1688)

• H1 2020 planning

Action Items

• Research opportunities for collaboration between other LFAI projects

• Insight into usage of Horovod (horovod.torch vs torch.distributed, horovod.tensorflow vs tf.mirrored_strategy)

• Investigate multi-node unit tests