Lightning Habana 1.2.0

New Features and Enhancements

• Upgraded to lightning 2.1.0 #79, #100, #105
• Upgraded to latest Synapse AI Release 1.12.1 #90, #106
• Updated infrastructure #83, #84, #86, #85, #82, #80, #89, #87, #88, #97, #96, #101
• Added notes on HW upgrade process #92, #102
• Upgraded ci workflows #97, #96, #103, #104
• Added environment variables cleanup with HPU distributed backend #91
• Added tests, example and documentation for HPUPrecisionPlugin with autocast #94
• Added tests to validate checkpoint resuming with deepspeed #95

For more information on Intel Habana Synapse AI release, refer to Gaudi release notes

Contributors

@assassin1991 @jyothisambolu @Borda @jerome-habana

Full Changelog: 1.1.0...1.2.0