23.03: July 2023 update

A wrap-up of the ongoing updates to Backend.AI 23.03 and 22.09. The development team is working hard to squeeze every last bit out.

Here are the most important changes in this update

• Enhanced storage manageability: Added per-user and per-project storage capacity management (quotas) with VFolder v3 architecture.
• Expanded NVIDIA compatibility: Support for CUDA v12 and NVIDIA H100 series.
• Extended hardware compatibility: Support for WARBOY accelerators from FuriosaAI.

Backend.AI Core & UI

• Supports CUDA v12 and NVIDIA H100 series.
• Supports the WARBOY accelerator, the first NPU from FuriosaAI company.
• Added storage capacity management function (Quota) by user and project by applying VFolder v3 architecture.
  • However, it is limited to storage that supports Directory Quota.
• Fixed an error that caused multi-node cluster session creation to fail.
• Fixed an error where a compute session in the PULLING state was incorrectly labeled as PREPARING.
• Fixed an error in which the CLONING state was incorrectly displayed when cloning a data folder with the same name when multiple storage devices have the same folder.
• Improved the web terminal of a compute session to use zsh as the default shell if the zsh package is installed in the kernel image.
• Added the ability to know the health status of the (managed) storage proxy and event bus.

Backend.AI FastTrack

• Added the ability to set multi-node cluster mode by task.
• Fixed an error where environment variables set in .env were not applied to the frontend.
• Fixed an error recognizing out-of-date when accessing with a mobile browser.
• Added a field to show the cause message when a task-specific error occurs.
• Fixed other editor-related issues.

Backend.AI is constantly evolving to provide a more powerful and user-friendly experience while supporting various environments in the ever-changing AI ecosystem. Stay tuned for more updates!
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