Intel(R) MLSL 2017 Preview

This release of the Intel(R) Machine Learning Scaling Library supports the
following major features:

• Data, model, and hybrid parallelism
• Synchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) and its variants (AdaGrad, Momentum, etc.)
  support by communication patterns
• Distributed weight update
• Advanced communication statistics
• C/C++ interfaces
• Support for Intel(R) Xeon(R) and Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) processors
  (formerly code named Knights Landing)
• Support for the following network interconnects:
  o Intel(R) Omni-Path Architecture (Intel(R) OPA)
  o Infiniband*
  o Ethernet*
• API is changed since Intel MLSL 2017 Beta release