aaronmarkham commented on a change in pull request #11049: Add linux and macos MKLDNN Building Instruction URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/11049#discussion_r201766017
########## File path: MKLDNN_README.md ########## @@ -0,0 +1,302 @@ +# Build/Install MXNet with MKL-DNN + +Building MXNet with [Intel MKL-DNN](https://github.com/intel/mkl-dnn) will gain better performance when using Intel Xeon CPUs for training and inference. The improvement of performance can be seen in this [page](https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/faq/perf.html#intel-cpu). Below are instructions for linux, MacOS and Windows platform. + +<h2 id="0">Contents</h2> + +* [1. Linux](#1) +* [2. MacOS](#2) +* [3. Windows](#3) +* [4. Verify MXNet with python](#4) +* [5. Enable MKL BLAS](#5) + +<h2 id="1">Linux</h2> + +### Prerequisites + +``` +sudo apt-get update +sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git +sudo apt-get install -y libopenblas-dev liblapack-dev +sudo apt-get install -y libopencv-dev +sudo apt-get install -y graphviz +``` + +### Clone MXNet sources + +``` +git clone --recursive https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet.git Review comment: What about the different pip options? Since this PR started I added a table to the instructions and made a recommendation on the mkl install. `pip install mxnet-cu92mkl` ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services
