v0.3.0a2

This is the release notes of v0.3.0a2. See here for the complete list of solved issues and merged PRs.

New Features

• Add to_gpu and to_cpu support for both tensor and DataFrame (#630)
• Access column using __getattr__ syntax for DataFrame (#712)

Enhancements

• Move related files to optimizes module (#640)
• Add option for plasma path (#699)
• Wait for graph to finish instead of querying with fixed intervals (#701)
• Submit initial operands together in one RPC call (#711)
• Add lock free option for workers (#716)
• Implements more flexible tileable.cix[] (#731)
• Submit metas obtained from schedulers (#727)
• Spawn promise to utilize async network libs (#725)
• Simplify data transfer protocol (#736)
• Fuse some operations in cholesky's tile (#742)

Bug fixes

• Separate flags for initials and terminals for operands (#703)
• Remove redundant RPC calls for schedulers (#705)
• Fix incorrect chunk shape in QR decomposition (#719)
• __setitem__ on a view should be still a view (#733)
• Processing index and columns seperately (and correctly) in from_tensor (#723)
• Add a config to use cpuacct.stat to calculate cpu usage (#740)
• Fix race condition when starting tasks and adding callbacks (#755)