SambaNova Runtime release notes

Release 1.24

Release 1.24 was an external release with general runtime improvements. However, there are no notable updates or highlights.

Release 1.22

Release 1.22 includes improved OS support.

Supported OS versions

  • Ubuntu: Starting with this release, SambaFlow supports Ubuntu 22.04.x.

    As part of the upgrade to support Ubuntu 20, we’re changing an environment variable. You don’t have to do anything to have the change take effect.

  • Red Hat: The version for Red Hat (8.5) remains unchanged.

Release 1.19

Release 1.19 includes the following new features and improvements.

SambaNova Prometheus Exporter

This release includes the SambaNova Exporter for Prometheus, which collects metrics for integration with Prometheus or another monitoring solution.

The exporter is disabled by default.

The exporter is installed as a service with this release. To enable or disable it, run the appropriate systemctl commands. For example:

systemctl enable sambanova_exporter
systemctl start sambanova_exporter
systemctl status sambanova_exporter

  • Run man sambanova_exporter for information about the metrics that we collect.

  • Run man sambanova_exporter.conf for information about the configuration file.

  • Run man sambanova_exporter.service for information about managing SambaNova exporter.

Documentation improvements

Documentation for SambaNova Fault Management (snfadm) now points to the following two public blog posts:

Release 1.16

New features and other improvements

  • Improved power management stability on SN-30

  • Enabled RDU-level reset on SN30 systems and standardized RDU reset log message for success or failure.

  • Improvements to snconfig:

    • New command for displaying RDU driver operational state. For example: snconfig show Node op-state

    • Add MTU to snconfig rdma-dev output, as shown below:

      =======           RDMA Device Info         =======
IBDEV      NETDEV      LINKSTATUS      CARRIERSTATUS   SPEED       MTU
mlx5_0     ib0         Down            NA              NA          4092
mlx5_1     snni0       Up              OK              100.0G      4200

  • Improvements to errors and logs

    • For Error messages, now printing process ID to console.

    • Updated sn.log and snd.log log levels to match the industry-standard. Log levels form a hierarchy where a higher log level includes all the lower levels. For example, setting the log level to WARNING logs warnings, errors, and critical messages but ignores debug and info messages.

    • When a job is canceled, that is, it doesn’t stop because of a failure, information in sn.log is now clearer.

    • Standardized logging date and time format across sn.log and snd.log for both Red Hat and Ubuntu.

Driver support

  • Added RDU driver support for TOSS 4.5.5

  • Added support for BRCM driver 222.0.150.0-1

Documentation improvements

  • Now documenting the SNML APIs, which you can use for requesting information about RDU status, managing RDUs, querying information about the host, and performing other DataScale system tasks.

Bug fixes

  • Make program load address 512B aligned

Release 1.15

New features and other improvements

  • Added timing information to description for faults that are manually cleared.

  • Added snconfig options to configure host hugepage settings. Run snconfig set hugepages -–help for details.

Fault management improvements

  • Improved error and fault handling policies and descriptions for RDU tiles, PCIe links and device memory.

  • Enhanced error messages in case of resource allocation failure.

  • Tile reset status is recorded in the fault management Error log. Use the snfadm tool to access the SNFM logs.

  • PCIe link faults will include a list of potential components that may be the reason for link issues in the link connectivity path.

Bug fixes

  • Improved device memory initialization and recycling

  • Fixed bugs in RDU tile resource management and allocation.

Supported components and versions

XRDU firmware

For XRDU firmware information, see the Hardware release notes:

Operating systems

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5.

  • Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS.

Deprecated components

  • FTYPE_BAD_TILE tile fault has been renamed to FTYPE_TILE_EXCLUDED.

  • FTYPE_BAD_RDU is deprecated. Instead, you see FTYPE_RDU_INIT, FTYPE_RDU_RESET, or FTYPE_RDU_REMOVED, depending upon the reason for the RDU fault.

  • RampUpErrorException: Starting with release 1.16, this exception is no longer one of the SambaNova Runtime exceptions.