Great work Matt! Thanks.
Can you make a PR and get this stuff upstream once you think the branch is
ready?
thank you, Mark


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:08 AM, Subutai Ahmad <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> That's excellent!
>
> You can safely comment out the use of getticks. It's a counter that counts
> the number of CPU cycles. We used it for timing small bits of code that are
> called often and you need a very low overhead timing call.  Not really sure
> why those unused references were left in! I think those calls were inserted
> manually when someone was actively working on optimizing that bit of code.
>
> --Subutai
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Matt Keith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Progress, here is the result of the run_tests script:
>> === 216 passed, 4 skipped in 3149.59 seconds ===
>>
>> No more errors!  I am doing a clean build now and will test some more in
>> the morning.  I have committed all of my files and changes to my keithcom
>> github fork.
>>
>> Does anyone know what the getticks function is used for in the
>> cycle_counter.hpp file?  I was working on getting that to work on the Pi,
>> when I noticed that the only place it was referenced was in the Cells4.cpp
>> file.  That file calls the function and stores the result in a local
>> variable and then never references it anywhere.  Is there some funny
>> business going on that I am not seeing, or is this just left over from some
>> old code?  For now, I have just commented out the references in the
>> Cells4.cpp file.  Please let me know if this will cause a problem somewhere.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> On Aug 21, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Georgios Pierris <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Uhmm.. I see. I had some similar issues when I wanted to distribute a
>> virtual machine and had to shrink it. There were a couple of ways to do it,
>> not sure if applicable in your case.
>>
>> One was to use dd and write a massive file full of zeros. That will
>> pretty much take up all the free unallocated space on your sd card which
>> had any values from past write operations. Then you simply delete it. Or
>> you can use a tool called zerofree.
>>
>> After that, you end up with many zeros in your clone, which compression
>> algorithms exploit and you will end up with a much smaller tar.gz or
>> whatever you decide to use.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Georgios
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Matt Keith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, we should be able to just distribute an image file of the full
>>> system.  I will need to do a clean build as my current system has a bunch
>>> of additional items installed as I was investigating the build process.
>>>  Also, I would like to look into ways to shrink the image as I am currently
>>> on an 8 GB sd card to allow space for the OS, the 1 GB swap file and
>>> software.
>>>
>>> I'm going to look into my changes in the cycle_counter.hpp file to see
>>> if that is causing the seg fault.
>>>
>>> The quest continues . . .
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>>> On Aug 21, 2013, at 5:43 AM, Georgios Pierris <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Great Matt! I am afraid I cannot help you with these errors, but I just
>>> wanted to know, is it safe to assume that once you have compiled everything
>>> you could "distribute" your sd clone with dd so that anyone else could get
>>> started within minutes?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Georgios
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Matt Keith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Success! Thank you so much Georgios for the helpful information.
>>>>
>>>> Ok, so the entire build finally completed on the Raspberry Pi after
>>>> nearly 6 hours!  I had to increase the swap size to 1 GB to get it to
>>>> complete without blowing up.  Developing on the Pi really brings back
>>>> memories of this:
>>>> http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/compiling.png
>>>>
>>>> That's the good news.  Back to reality, it doesn't pass all of the
>>>> tests.
>>>>
>>>> The first thing that I noticed is that the
>>>> external/linux32/lib/python/site-packages contains some .so files.  I was
>>>> just using the files from the linux64 dir to try and get things to build,
>>>> but we need to get arm versions of the .so files in matplotlib, Crypto, and
>>>> PIL.  So I used pip to install matplotlib and PIL and copied the dirs from
>>>> the system location to the nupic/external dirs.  Then I installed
>>>> python-crypto with apt-get and copied the Crypto dir over.  Is this a valid
>>>> way to get the libs?  Does anyone know how the shared objects were built
>>>> for the current linux64 and darwin64 dirs?
>>>>
>>>> When I run the nupic/bin/run_tests.py it shows:
>>>> === 6 failed, 210 passed, 4 skipped in 275.98 seconds ===
>>>>
>>>> The htmtest binary dies with a seg fault right after 'Adding a PyNode
>>>> region...'.  And the testeverything app shows:
>>>> Found 40 test sets
>>>> WARNING: Caught exception: This exception should get caught.
>>>> ======= Tests for TesterTest ==============
>>>> Total tests: 10, Failures:      4, Disabled     : 0
>>>> WARNING: Critical failure ocurred
>>>> <snip>
>>>> FAIL  Integer test, should fail (line: 50)
>>>>       Expected result: 1
>>>>       Actual result:   0
>>>> FAIL  Double test, should fail (line: 51)
>>>>       Expected result: 23.42
>>>>       Actual result:   23.421
>>>> FAIL  String test, should fail (line: 52)
>>>>       Expected result: Numenta
>>>>       Actual result:   Numenta
>>>> <snip>
>>>> ERROR:  Invalid NTA_BasicType -1 used in array constructor
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/ArrayBase.cpp line 59]
>>>> ERROR:  allocateBuffer -- buffer already set. Use releaseBuffer first
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/ArrayBase.cpp line 80]
>>>> ERROR:  allocateBuffer -- buffer already set. Use releaseBuffer first
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/ArrayBase.cpp line 80]
>>>> ERROR:  setBuffer -- buffer already set. Use releaseBuffer first
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/ArrayBase.cpp line 97]
>>>> ======= Tests for ArrayTest ==============
>>>> Total tests: 72, Failures:      0, Disabled     : 0
>>>> All tests passed
>>>> <snip>
>>>> ======= Tests for BasicTypeTest ==============
>>>> Total tests: 47, Failures:      0, Disabled     : 0
>>>> All tests passed
>>>> <snip>
>>>> ======= Tests for BufferTest ==============
>>>> Total tests: 94, Failures:      0, Disabled     : 0
>>>> All tests passed
>>>>
>>>> ERROR:  CHECK FAILED: "index < vec_.size()"
>>>>  [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Collection.cpp line 70]
>>>> ERROR:  No item named: blah [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Collection.cpp
>>>> line 95]
>>>> ERROR:  CHECK FAILED: "index < vec_.size()"
>>>>  [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Collection.cpp line 70]
>>>> ERROR:  No item named: blah [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Collection.cpp
>>>> line 95]
>>>> ERROR:  CHECK FAILED: "index < vec_.size()"
>>>>  [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Collection.cpp line 70]
>>>> ERROR:  No item named: blah [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Collection.cpp
>>>> line 95]
>>>> ERROR:  CHECK FAILED: "index < vec_.size()"
>>>>  [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Collection.cpp line 70]
>>>> ERROR:  No item named: blah [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Collection.cpp
>>>> line 95]
>>>> ERROR:  Unable to add item '0' to collection because it already exists
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Collection.cpp line 107]
>>>> ERROR:  Unable to add item '1' to collection because it already exists
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Collection.cpp line 107]
>>>> ERROR:  Unable to add item '2' to collection because it already exists
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Collection.cpp line 107]
>>>> ERROR:  No item named '4' in collection
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Collection.cpp line 127]
>>>> ERROR:  No item named '1' in collection
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Collection.cpp line 127]
>>>> ERROR:  Unable to add item '0' to collection because it already exists
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Collection.cpp line 107]
>>>> ERROR:  Unable to add item '1' to collection because it already exists
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Collection.cpp line 107]
>>>> ERROR:  Unable to add item '2' to collection because it already exists
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Collection.cpp line 107]
>>>> ERROR:  No item named '1' in collection
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Collection.cpp line 127]
>>>> ERROR:  No item named '0' in collection
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Collection.cpp line 127]
>>>>  ======= Tests for CollectionTest ==============
>>>> Total tests: 199, Failures:      0, Disabled     : 0
>>>> All tests passed
>>>> <snip>
>>>> ======= Tests for CondProbTableTest ==============
>>>> Total tests: 115, Failures:      0, Disabled     : 0
>>>> All tests passed
>>>> <snip>
>>>> ======= Tests for DenseTensorUnitTest ==============
>>>> Total tests: 0, Failures:      0, Disabled     : 0
>>>> All tests passed
>>>>
>>>> ERROR:  Attempt to get count from dimensions [unspecified]
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Dimensions.cpp line 57]
>>>> ERROR:  Bad request for dimension 0 on [unspecified]
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Dimensions.cpp line 78]
>>>> ERROR:  Invalid coordinate [1 2] for Dimensions [unspecified]
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Dimensions.cpp line 171]
>>>> ERROR:  Attempt to get count from dimensions [unspecified]
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Dimensions.cpp line 57]
>>>> ERROR:  Bad request for dimension 0 on [unspecified]
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Dimensions.cpp line 78]
>>>> ERROR:  Invalid coordinate index 0 of 0 is too large for region
>>>> dimensions [dontcare] [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Dimensions.cpp line 189]
>>>> ERROR:  Attempt to get count from dimensions [dontcare]
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Dimensions.cpp line 57]
>>>> ERROR:  Invalid coordinate index 0 of 1 is too large for region
>>>> dimensions [1 0] (invalid) [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Dimensions.cpp line
>>>> 189]
>>>> ERROR:  Attempt to get count from invalid dimensions [1 0] (invalid)
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Dimensions.cpp line 62]
>>>> ERROR:  Bad request for dimension 2 on [1 0] (invalid)
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Dimensions.cpp line 78]
>>>> ERROR:  Bad request for dimension 2 on [2 3]
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Dimensions.cpp line 78]
>>>> ERROR:  Bad request for dimension 2 on [2 5]
>>>> [/home/pi/nupic/nta/ntypes/Dimensions.cpp line 78]
>>>> ======= Tests for DimensionsTest ==============
>>>> Total tests: 205, Failures:      0, Disabled     : 0
>>>> All tests passed
>>>>
>>>> Let me know if you want the full output.  Any idea of what piece might
>>>> be broken?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Matt
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 19, 2013, at 1:29 PM, Georgios Pierris <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello Matt,
>>>>
>>>> have a look on my comment in https://issues.numenta.org/browse/NPC-143 
>>>> regarding
>>>> the redefinition on swig.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Georgios
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Matt Keith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Mark,
>>>>>
>>>>> Your linux32 compiled .a files do not work in the ARM environment, so
>>>>> I think that we will need to create a new external/linux32arm dir to
>>>>> support that platform.  I'll try to get the build working with that 
>>>>> change.
>>>>>
>>>>> I didn't remove any of the grouper files, I just commented out the
>>>>> guts of all of the Grouper.cpp methods.  However, the problem was with the
>>>>> gcc 4.6 compiler and not the code, so it just failed on some different
>>>>> files later in the build.  Upgrading to gcc 4.7 fixed the issue.  I'll add
>>>>> my +1 to removing the old code, but I don't think that it is an issue for
>>>>> raspberry pi anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>> I spoke a little too soon saying that the build completed in my last
>>>>> message.  There was an error with apr.h buried in the build output that I
>>>>> missed and that is why none of the test scripts were created.  I have
>>>>> corrected that error but now I am getting the following error with swig.
>>>>>
>>>>> make[2]: Entering directory
>>>>> `/tmp/ntabuild/lang/py/bindings/engine_internal'
>>>>> /bin/bash ../../../../libtool  --tag=CXX   --mode=compile g++
>>>>> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/home/pi/nupic/lang/py/bindings/engine_internal
>>>>> -I../../../../build_system/unix  -I/usr/include/python2.7 -I/home/pi/nupic
>>>>> -I/home/pi/nupic/external/linux32/include -DNUPIC2  -I/home/pi/nupic
>>>>> -I/home/pi/nupic/external/common/include
>>>>> -I/home/pi/nupic/external/linux32/include -fvisibility=hidden
>>>>> -DNTA_INTERNAL -g -DNTA_ASSERTIONS_ON   -fPIC -DPIC -ffloat-store -D_PY27
>>>>> -DNTA_PLATFORM_linux32 -Wall -Wreturn-type -Wunused-variable
>>>>> -Wno-deprecated -DBOOST_NO_WREGEX -DNTA_INSTRUMENT_ON
>>>>> -DNTA_PYTHON_SUPPORT=2.7 -DNTAPY_INCLUDE="<python2.7/"
>>>>> -DNTAPY_PACKAGES="\"lib/python2.7/site-packages\"" -I/usr/include
>>>>> -I/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/core/include -O1 -falign-functions
>>>>> -DSWIG_TYPE_TABLE=_nupic_engine_internal -DNUPIC2  -MT
>>>>> _engine_internal_la-engine_internal_py.lo -MD -MP -MF
>>>>> .deps/_engine_internal_la-engine_internal_py.Tpo -c -o
>>>>> _engine_internal_la-engine_internal_py.lo `test -f 
>>>>> 'engine_internal_py.cpp'
>>>>> || echo
>>>>> '/home/pi/nupic/lang/py/bindings/engine_internal/'`engine_internal_py.cpp
>>>>> libtool: compile:  g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
>>>>> -I/home/pi/nupic/lang/py/bindings/engine_internal
>>>>> -I../../../../build_system/unix -I/usr/include/python2.7 -I/home/pi/nupic
>>>>> -I/home/pi/nupic/external/linux32/include -DNUPIC2 -I/home/pi/nupic
>>>>> -I/home/pi/nupic/external/common/include
>>>>> -I/home/pi/nupic/external/linux32/include -fvisibility=hidden
>>>>> -DNTA_INTERNAL -g -DNTA_ASSERTIONS_ON -fPIC -DPIC -ffloat-store -D_PY27
>>>>> -DNTA_PLATFORM_linux32 -Wall -Wreturn-type -Wunused-variable
>>>>> -Wno-deprecated -DBOOST_NO_WREGEX -DNTA_INSTRUMENT_ON
>>>>> -DNTA_PYTHON_SUPPORT=2.7 "-DNTAPY_INCLUDE=<python2.7/"
>>>>> -DNTAPY_PACKAGES=\"lib/python2.7/site-packages\" -I/usr/include
>>>>> -I/lib/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/core/include -O1 -falign-functions
>>>>> -DSWIG_TYPE_TABLE=_nupic_engine_internal -DNUPIC2 -MT
>>>>> _engine_internal_la-engine_internal_py.lo -MD -MP -MF
>>>>> .deps/_engine_internal_la-engine_internal_py.Tpo -c engine_internal_py.cpp
>>>>>  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/_engine_internal_la-engine_internal_py.o
>>>>> engine_internal_py.cpp:4455:22: error: redefinition of 'struct
>>>>> swig::traits<unsigned int>'
>>>>> engine_internal_py.cpp:4378:22: error: previous definition of 'struct
>>>>> swig::traits<unsigned int>'
>>>>> engine_internal_py.cpp:4459:23: error: redefinition of 'struct
>>>>> swig::traits_asval<unsigned int>'
>>>>> engine_internal_py.cpp:4382:23: error: previous definition of 'struct
>>>>> swig::traits_asval<unsigned int>'
>>>>> engine_internal_py.cpp:4465:23: error: redefinition of 'struct
>>>>> swig::traits_from<unsigned int>'
>>>>> engine_internal_py.cpp:4388:23: error: previous definition of 'struct
>>>>> swig::traits_from<unsigned int>'
>>>>> make[2]: *** [_engine_internal_la-engine_internal_py.lo] Error 1
>>>>>
>>>>> I have not used swig before.  Are there any swig experts out there
>>>>> that can point me the right direction?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Matt
>>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 19, 2013, at 2:47 AM, Marek Otahal <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Matt,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Matt Keith <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you everyone for the feedback.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Marek, yes I'll have to take a look at the linux32 support you have
>>>>>> submitted.  Won't there be issues with those .a files working on arm
>>>>>> instead of x86?  Should we create a linux32arm folder as well, or can we
>>>>>> remove all dependancies on static libraries?
>>>>>>
>>>>> I was wondering that too. Could you test, take the .a files from my
>>>>> linux32 branch and place them in your ARM environment?
>>>>> (I think it will be a prob and we'll need another platform to support)
>>>>>
>>>>> about removing all the static deps: I'm not sure now, as there are
>>>>> tickets like linux64/darwin64-environment, ...  But before I was told we
>>>>> want to keep nupic as much self-contined as possible.(but building some of
>>>>> the libs might be tricky, that's why the precompiled archives .a are
>>>>> present) Maybe Scott can explain?
>>>>>
>>>>> PS: did you succeed removing the old Grouper classes, as Subutai
>>>>> mentioned here? I tried just rm the related files, but it was quite
>>>>> connected to other code too (so I wonder if that code is obsolete too, and
>>>>> can be removed, or need be reworked)
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards, Mark
>>>>>
>>>>>
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