Release Notes¶
The following notes cover the changes in Intel® Tiber™ Developer Cloud 2.0.2
04 September 2024¶
Version information
Intel Tiber Developer Cloud 2.0.2
Release information:
General Availability (GA)
Release Date: 09/04/2024
Publish date of release notes: 09/04/2024
Summary:
Preview Catalog: Users can request to use Intel® Core™ Ultra processor family inside our preview catalog.
Software catalog: We added SeekrFlow* to our software catalog. SeekrFlow product page provides information on its usage.
Landing page changes (cloud.intel.com): Added reference to Intel Core Ultra processor family.
Improvements:
Usability changes: Clarifies descriptive UI components to improve user discoverability and functionality.
27 August 2024¶
Version information
Intel Tiber Developer Cloud 2.0.1
Release information:
General Availability (GA)
Release Date: 08/27/2024
Publish date of release notes: 08/27/2024
Summary
Training - JupyterLab environment: Users can now explore JupyterLab Notebook training that runs on Intel® Gaudi® 2 AI accelerator and Intel® Data Center Max Series GPU. Several installed oneAPI components, including the Intel® oneAPI Toolkit, were updated to 2024.2. Several enhancements were made to increase the capacity, stability, and performance of the environment.
Improvements:
Documentation site: The home page and some Guides and Tutorials landing pages now include badges: “AI-Dev”, “Video”, and “Tools”. Using a consistent visual language, badges improve user navigation by providing users with visual clues, helping them quickly navigate from parent to child pages and find the resources they need.
Documentation - JupyterLab Tutorial - We added several new sections to the JupyterLab Training tutorial to indicate the hardware and software on which Jupyter Notebooks depend. We added a table showing the latest versions of Intel® software, including the versions for several oneAPI components like the Intel® oneAPI Toolkit, Intel® Distribution for Python, and many more. Another table was added to identify which kernels are supported on Intel® Gaudi® 2 AI Accelerator or the Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series.
12 August 2024¶
Version information
Intel Tiber Developer Cloud 2.0.0
Release information:
General Availability (GA)
Release Date: 08/12/2024
Publish date of release notes: 08/12/2024
Summary
We’re thrilled to roll out Intel Tiber Developer Cloud UI 2.0, a significant leap forward in our user interface, tailored to our growing suite of services. With this update, users will experience an improved navigation menu, enhanced aesthetics, and improved accessibility across various devices and screen sizes.
New features:
Contextual Documentation: We’ve integrated our documentation guides and tutorials directly into the console. Now, by clicking the ‘Documentation’ button on every page, users can browse documentation that’s relevant to the current dashboard content. Guidance and resources are at your fingertips, exactly when and where you need them.
Get started sections: When users first arrive at the console, they’re offered links to recommended services that help meet their goals.
Improvements:
Responsive Across Devices: The UI now adapts fluidly to a broader range of screen sizes, ensuring users enjoy a consistent and functional experience on any device.
Documentation: Site redesigned to match the new Intel® Tiber™ Developer Cloud 2.0.0.
Navigation of the Table of Contents reflects the same colors and styling as that of the console.
The general FAQ was redesigned and new services are referenced.
22 July 2024¶
Version information
Intel Developer Cloud 1.0.16
Release information
Release Type: General Availability (GA)
Release Date: 07/22/2024
Publish date of release notes: 08/12/2024
Summary
Landing page changes (cloud.intel.com): There will be only one option to create an account. In the past, there were 3 different registration options for service tiers (Standard, Premium, and Enterprise).
Cloud console changes (console.cloud.intel.com): - The account tier screen is removed from the console. - After account creation, every new user starts as a Standard tier user. - Standard users will be able to see all available SKUs and services. - Users can upgrade to the Premium tier in the cloud console.
New features
Standard-tier users can request Premium-tier compute instances with a $/hr cost when cloud credits are applied to the user account.
Improvements
Instance auto-termination for standard tier accounts - Active compute service instance reservations are automatically deleted when the user account runs out of cloud credits. - To avoid service downtime, the user will receive warning email messages and be requested to add more cloud credits or add a payment method to the account.
03 June 2024¶
Version information
Intel Developer Cloud 1.0.15
Release information
Release Type: General Availability (GA)
Release Date: 05/29/2024
Publish date of release notes: 06/03/2024
Summary
Controlled access to Object Store Service available in Intel® Tiber™ Developer Cloud Region-2 (Please contact support team for enabling account access).
New features
Object storage service was added in Region-2 to support need to store large amounts of unstructured data used in model training and inference workflows.
New or revised guides: - Adds Object Storage to assist users in creating storage buckets for a training and inference workflow. - Adds Manage Storage to explain storage options available: file storage, or object storage. - Adds processor model matrix to recommend an Intel® processor filtered by large language model (LLM) use case. - Modifies Intel Kubernetes Service, adding three new sections, including how to configure ingress and expose cluster services and deploy AI/ML workloads.
- New or revised tutorials:
Modifies Public Articles, adding five new public AI tutorials and one video tutorials.
Improvements
Intel® Developer Cloud now offers a performance improvement for billing and usage calculations for services provided. When you view your usage, usage data is retrieved and displayed much faster upon request.
Enhanced SSL security applied for critical back-end services.
03 April 2024¶
Version information
Intel Developer Cloud 1.0.12
Release information
Release Type: General Availability (GA)
Release Date: 04/02/2024
Publish date of release notes: 04/03/2024
Summary
Intel Developer Cloud 1.0.12 is the general availability release for storage as a service (STaaS), which includes file storage. The new service allows Standard, Premium, and Enterprise account holders to create a storage volume. Storage quotas vary by account type.
This release includes initial launch of the Preview Catalog, which gives customers access to pre-release and early-release Intel® hardware.
New features
New guide: - Adds File Storage guide to explain CRUD operations for storage and how to mount a storage volume on a compute instance. - Adds Preview Catalog guide to explain how to request an instance in the Preview Catalog.
New tutorials: Adds Public Articles to increase audience exposure to publicly available Intel® Developer Cloud articles, focused on GenAI and Machine Learning Operations (MLOps).
08 February 2024¶
Version information
Intel Developer Cloud 1.0.11
Release information
Release Type: General Availability (GA)
Release Date: 02/08/2024
Publish date of release notes: 02/08/2024
Summary
Intel Developer Cloud 1.0.11 is the General Availability release for multi-user accounts, a feature that enables Premium and Enterprise account holders to invite others to share infrastructure and services. This feature improves collaboration, and it simplifies billing and infrastructure management.
New features
Multi-user Accounts:A Premium Account or Enterprise Accounts holder may now invite others to share infrastructure and services by following a secure invitation process. Users may be invited to join a Premium or Enterprise account. See Account Types.
New guide: Adds guide Multi-user Accounts to explain multi-user account features and functionality.
25 January 2024¶
Version information
Intel Developer Cloud 1.0.10
Release information
Release Type: General Availability (GA)
Release Date: 01/23/2024
Publish date of release notes: 01/25/2024
Summary
Intel Developer Cloud 1.0.10 is the General Availability release for Intel Kubernetes* Service. This release also includes improvements to account type upgrades, to coupon duration, and it increases availability of hardware resources.
New features
Account Type Upgrades: Customers can now upgrade from a Standard to a Premium account using a coupon.
Intel Kubernetes Service: Intel Kubernetes Service is a fully managed container service that helps customers run GPU-accelerated Kubernetes workloads at scale using Intel® Max Series GPU and Intel® Gaudi® 2 processor Deep Learning Server.
Hardware - Bare Metal: Customers now have the option of using two-, four-, or eight-node clusters. Increased capacity in region 2 results in more availability of hardware resources.
Hardware - Virtual Machine: Vnet Internal optimization. Baremetal-enrollment-api internal optimization.
Dependencies/requirements
Coupons: Coupon credit expiration was adjusted so customers can fully utilize credit for the intended duration.
18 December 2023¶
Version information
Intel Developer Cloud 1.0.8
Release information
Release Type: General Availability (GA)
Release Date: 12/12/2023
Publish date of release notes: 12/18/2023
New features
Payment Methods: Customers can now use credit cards as a mode of payment.
Account Type Upgrades: Customers can now upgrade from a Standard to a Premium account (only using credit card). This enables a smoother transition to innovative tools and technology for users who start with a Standard account.
Enterprise Accounts: An Enterprise account type is now available. This account type includes monthly billing and invoicing.
Multi-region Support: A second region was added to provide additional capacity for compute resources. This increases the availability of Gaudi2® Deep Learning Server nodes.
Training and Workshops Users can expect improved accessibility for loading and training models. This was achieved by adding more SLURM clusters, supporting access to AI/ML development stacks and Jupyter Notebooks.
Hardware - Core Compute: The platform added support for the 5th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor for additional compute resources.
Hardware - HPC: The platform added support for the 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors with high bandwidth memory (HBM) for additional compute resources.
Hardware - GPU: The platform added support for the Intel® Max Series GPU to support increased power consumption when doing model training and inferencing.
Improvements
Improved deployment methods and processes provide higher availability for compute and faster releases of new features.
24 October 2023¶
Version information
Intel Developer Cloud 1.0.4
Release information
Release Type: General Availability (GA)
Release Date: 10/24/2023
Publish date of release notes: 10/24/2023
New features
Dark mode: We added a dark mode to the Intel Developer Cloud Console, which will use the user's browser preference and can also be turned on or off in the user menu. This will make our console easier to use in low-light environments.
Training and Workshops: Jupyter Notebooks are now available for AI, C++ SYCL, and Generative AI (see below). This feature especially assists students, professors, and researchers by providing pre-loaded dependencies and executable examples.
Generative AI trainings: We added new trainings on generative AI to our console. Take a look at what generative AI can do when powered by the Intel® Data Center GPU Max Series. Designed for everyone: from AI creators and artists to engineers and the just-plain curious.
New tutorials: Adds tutorial Habana Gaudi 2.
Analytics tracking: We added analytics tracking to our web app to help us continuously improve it and make it more user-friendly.
Improvements
Account Settings: Users can now view their Cloud Account ID, Name, and E-mail. In the Developer Cloud console, click on the User Profile icon (upper right) and select Account Settings.
Invoices: Cloud credits now determine the ability to provision and launch an instances. In addition, to simplify customer experience with invoicing, enhancements to the anniversary dates were made. For Premium users, in the Developer Cloud console, click on the User Profile icon (upper right) and Invoices.
03 October 2023¶
Version information
Intel Developer Cloud 1.0.3
Release information
Release Type: General Availability (GA)
Release Date: 10/03/2023
Publish date of release notes: 10/03/2023
New features
Availability of Gaudi2® clusters (instance groups) on Gaudi2® Deep Learning Server, 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, and Intel® Max Series GPU.
Improvements
Improved user sign up process. The user can now select a service tier if problems are encountered during first use.
19 September 2023¶
Version information
Intel Developer Cloud 1.0.2
Release information
Release Type: General Availability (GA)
Release Date: 09/19/2023
Publish date of release notes: 09/19/2023
Summary
Intel Developer Cloud 1.0.2 is the General Availability release for Intel Developer Cloud. In this first release, there is one region available based in US. Stay tuned for more exciting announcements coming shortly.
New features
Intel Developer Cloud 1.0.2 provides the ability to provision Bare Metal providing access to Gaudi2® Deep Learning Server, 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, and Intel® Max Series GPU.
Intel Developer Cloud 1.0.2 provides the ability to provision Virtual Machine providing access to 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Dependencies/requirements
Supported Browsers include Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Edge.
Credit Card and Coupon are currently supported payment methods.
Documentation
Please click the “Getting Started” link on the Learning and Support section of the Home page to access product tutorials and guides.
Support
Please click the “Getting Started” link on the Learning and Support section of the Home page to access the Support section.