Re: [RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet

2019-05-29 Thread Pedro Larroy
> > > > I'm aware that we do not support this type of behaviour out of the box, > > but > > > I think that we're getting to a point where we should take a step back > > and > > > reconsider the approaches we would like to do in such resource-heavy > >

Re: [RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet

2019-05-29 Thread Marco de Abreu
otherwise we'd notice in quite a few other cases. > > > > Best regards, > > Marco > > > > On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 12:15 PM Lv, Tao A wrote: > > > > > Hi Lin, > > > > > > Yes, MKL supports that. Please refer to > > > > https:/

Re: [RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet

2019-05-29 Thread Pedro Larroy
eveloper-guide-using-the-ilp64-interface-vs-lp64-interface > > for details. > > > > I also did some work towards that direction. Please see below PRs for > > MXNet and mshadow respectively. > > https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13723 > > https://g

Re: [RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet

2019-05-28 Thread Marco de Abreu
com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13723 > https://github.com/dmlc/mshadow/pull/365 > > Feel free to let me know if anything I can help. > > Thanks, > -tao > > > -Original Message- > From: Lin Yuan [mailto:apefor...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2019 1:36 AM >

RE: [RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet

2019-05-25 Thread Lv, Tao A
...@mxnet.apache.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet Hi Sheng, Thanks for the nice suggestions. To summarize the current status and future plan of this project: There were some missing operators from #11742 that did not support large tensors. Thanbks to Rohit's

Re: [RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet

2019-05-24 Thread Lin Yuan
to support that. > > > > Thanks, > > -tao > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Srivastava, Rohit Kumar [mailto: > srivastava@buckeyemail.osu.edu] > > Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2019 7:23 AM > > To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.o

Re: [RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet

2019-05-18 Thread Sheng Zha
be released at the middle of year. But I'm not sure if > MXNet has plan to support that. > > Thanks, > -tao > > -Original Message- > From: Srivastava, Rohit Kumar [mailto:srivastava@buckeyemail.osu.edu] > Sent: Sunday, May 19, 201

Re: [RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet

2019-05-18 Thread Srivastava, Rohit Kumar
7:23 AM To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet Hi Tao, There are already couple of operators implemented in MXNet that are currently supporting Tensors with size over ~4.5 billion. In the meantime core MXNet

RE: [RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet

2019-05-18 Thread Lv, Tao A
019 7:23 AM To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet Hi Tao, There are already couple of operators implemented in MXNet that are currently supporting Tensors with size over ~4.5 billion. In the meantime core MXNet can move ahead

Re: [RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet

2019-05-18 Thread Srivastava, Rohit Kumar
Subject: Re: [RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet Tao, - what's the max size of dimensionality? Which data type is used to define dimensionality (ndims)? We assume the max size of dimensionality is relatively small. Hence `int` data type is

RE: [RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet

2019-04-29 Thread Lv, Tao A
pefor...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 12:56 AM To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet Tao, - what's the max size of dimensionality? Which data type is used to define dimensionality (ndims)? We assume the max size of dimensi

Re: [RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet

2019-04-29 Thread Lin Yuan
ese three can be *large*. > > -Original Message- > From: Srivastava, Rohit Kumar [mailto:srivastava@buckeyemail.osu.edu] > Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2019 7:33 AM > To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org > Subject: [RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet > >

RE: [RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet

2019-04-28 Thread Lv, Tao A
7:33 AM To: dev@mxnet.incubator.apache.org Subject: [RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet Dear Community, Currently MXNet supports creation of Tensors containing up to 2^32 elements. However there are cases where tensors of size over 5 billion is required We plan to support creation o

[RFC] Support for creation of Large Tensors in MXNet

2019-04-26 Thread Srivastava, Rohit Kumar
Dear Community, Currently MXNet supports creation of Tensors containing up to 2^32 elements. However there are cases where tensors of size over 5 billion is required We plan to support creation of large tensors on MXNet. A design proposal is ready for review: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence