[XLA 研究] How to use XLA AOT compilation in TensorFlow

This document is going to explain how to use AOT compilation in TensorFlow. We will use the tool: tfcompile, which is a standalone tool that ahead-of-time (AOT) compiles TensorFlow graphs into executable code. It can reduce the total binary size, and also avoid some runtime overheads. A typical use-case of tfcompile is to compile an inference graph into executable code for mobile devices. The following steps are as follows:

1. Build tool: tfcompile

> bazel build --config=opt --config=cuda //tensorflow/compiler/aot:tfcompile

[XLA 研究] Take a glance to see the graph changes in XLA JIT compilation

In the preamble of this article, to understand XLA JIT is pretty hard because you probably need to understand TensorFlow Graph, Executor,  LLVM, and math... I have been through this painful study work somehow so that I hope my experience can help for those who are interested in XLA but have not get understood yet.

[TX2 研究] My first try on Jetson TX2

I got a Jetson TX2 several days ago from my friend and it looks like following pictures. I setup it using Nivida's installing tool: JetPack-L4T-3.2 version (JetPack-L4T-3.2-linux-x64_b196.run). During the installation, I indeed encounter some issues with not abling to setup IP address on TX2, and I resolved it. If anyone still has this issue, let me know and I will post another article to explain the resolving steps. 

[Caffe] Try out Caffe with Python code

This document is just a testing record to try out on Caffe with Python code. I refer to this blog. For using Python, we can easily to access every data flow blob in layers, including diff blob, weight blob and bias blob. It is so convenient for us to understand the change of training phase's weights and what have done in each step.

[Caffe] How to use Caffe to solve the regression problem?

There is a question coming up to my mind recently. How to use Caffe to solve the regression problem? We used to see a bunch of examples related to image recognition with labels and they are classification problem. In my experience, I have done this problem using TensorFlow, not Caffe. But, I think in theory they are both the same. The key point is using EuclideanLossLayer as the final Loss Layer and it's the detail from the official web site:

[Raspberry Pi] Use Wireless and Ethernet together

The following content is my Raspberry Pi 3's setting in /etc/network/interface as follows. In my case, I both use wireless and ethernet device at the same time.

# Include files from /etc/network/interfaces.d:
source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto wlan0
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
    Wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
    address 140.96.29.224
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    up ip route add 100.85.0.0/24 via 140.96.29.254 dev eth0
    up ip route add 140.96.29.0/24 via 140.96.29.254 dev eth0
    up ip route add 140.96.98.0/24 via 140.96.29.254 dev eth0

[Debug] Debugging Python and C++ exposed by boost together

During the studying of Caffe, I was curious about how Caffe provides Python interface and what kind of tool uses for wrapping. Then, the answer is Boost.Python. I think for C++ developer, it is worth time to learn and I will study it sooner. In this post, I want to introduce the debugging skill which I found in this post and I believe these are very useful such as debugging Caffe with Python Layer. Here is the link:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38898459/debugging-python-and-c-exposed-by-boost-together

[PCIe] lspci command and the PCIe devices in my server

The following content is about my PCIe devices/drivers and the lspci command results.

$ cd /sys/bus/pci_express/drivers

$ ls -al

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0  7月  6 15:33 aer/

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0  7月  6 15:33 pciehp/

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0  7月  6 15:33 pcie_pme/