Thanks, good idea.
Pedro. On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 2:15 AM Steffen Rochel <steffenroc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Pedro, nice work. Please consider adding instructions also to > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/MXNet+Development+Guide > > On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 2:35 PM Marco de Abreu > <marco.g.ab...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote: > > > Great work, Pedro! This will help to have a consistent quality on all ARM > > devices. > > > > -Marco > > > > Am Fr., 2. Nov. 2018, 20:02 hat Pedro Larroy <pedro.larroy.li...@gmail.com > > > > > geschrieben: > > > > > Hi MXNet community > > > > > > AI on MCUs can enable cheaper, lower power, better privacy and lower > > > latency applications. There’s an estimate of more than 20 billion > > connected > > > devices to be deployed in 2020 and a part of them will do some amount of > > AI > > > / ML tasks. Testing in embedded devices is very challenging and expensive > > > due to logistics, tooling and resource constraints. Here I would like to > > > announce a contribution I have done using the free and open-source > > emulator > > > QEMU and Docker to perform hardware virtualization and test MXNet on edge > > > devices, specifically to test the MXNet artifacts on ARM such as Pip > > wheels > > > and run unit tests. > > > > > > There's small instructions to run a virtualized environment on the bottom > > > of the README.md in the ci folder: > > > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/tree/master/ci#testing-with-qemu > > > > > > I would encourage you to give it a try and report any comments or > > feedback. > > > The plan is to integrate it into nightly testing. We would need to narrow > > > down a bit the scope of testing since still the full suite is just too > > big > > > and resource intensive to finish in a reasonable time. > > > > > > My idea would be to split the unit tests into different suites such as > > core > > > / gluon / extended. Do you have any suggestions for this split? > > > > > > As a cool thing to try, you can execute the following command which will > > > give you a shell in an ARM VM (also sshable via ssh -p2222 qemu@localhost > > ) > > > so you can use and debug MXNet in ARM: > > > > > > ci/build.py -p test.arm_qemu -b && docker run -p2222:2222 -ti > > > mxnetci/build.test.arm_qemu > > > > > > > > > How cool is that? If you are curious or want to hack on it, have a look > > > at the qemu folders under ci. > > > > > > Pedro. > > > > >
