Re: A proposal for unified integration with external acceleration libraries

2018-06-05 Thread Marco de Abreu
I definitely like this idea. We have also been discussing about the exact same idea within our team and think that it allows MXNet to scale better with the increasing number of backends. Imagine we get AMD-CPU, AMD-GPU, ARM, Snapdragon and other vendors/chips. We are definitely running into problem

Re: A proposal for unified integration with external acceleration libraries

2018-06-04 Thread Zheng, Da
Hi Tao, Thanks for your feedbacks. For your questions: 1. This subgraph strategy is just a mechanism for integration with external libraries. We can use it if it provides benefits. It seems to me that CuDNN doesn't benefit much from this strategy. Although NHWC might be non-default, this layou

RE: A proposal for unified integration with external acceleration libraries

2018-06-03 Thread Lv, Tao A
Hi Da and other developers, It's a great idea to limit external acceleration libs into certain scope and subgraph. I am not quite familiar with TVM and TensorRT's design. But from the side of MKL-DNN backend, here are my concerns on this proposal: 1. Is subgraph for all third party acceleratio