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Veles: Distributed platform for rapid deep learning application development

154 points by vmarkovtsev 11y ago

infinitone 11y ago
Seems like it was hastily launched to coincide with Google's? I guess now we have platform wars even on something so niche...
- nicklo 11y ago
  Not sure I agree with "hastily launched". First public commit to the github repo was January 14th 2014. Link: https://github.com/Samsung/veles/commit/7b19147069119399c89f98d84af450d8c8690035 https://github.com/Samsung/veles/commit/7b19147069119399c89f... The presumption that this or Google's Tensor Flow can be cobbled together in a few hours is completely absurd. These things take months if not years of development. And releasing them into the wild is not a process that takes 30 minutes. Open Sourcing a company library is a work intensive process that takes weeks if not months. Beyond the code itself there are a swatch of promotional materials to prepare. That said, I do agree that the submission itself to HN was in response to Google's Tensor Flow announcement. The submitter created their acct an hour ago and the only other activity is a comment on the google announcement talking about veles. Also the submission title was unnecessarily snarky.
  - bhaumik 11y ago
    FWIW someone with the same username is listed as the #1 contributor: https://github.com/Samsung/veles/graphs/contributors https://github.com/Samsung/veles/graphs/contributors
  - jaaron 11y ago
    eh, it's a topical post and let's others know there's more to this space than Google's offering. I don't mind it. Would you rather they have not posted?
  - dang 11y ago
    We changed the title from "Veles – same as TensorFlow, but from Samsung", which was inappropriately editorialized. Unless an original title is misleading or linkbait, submitters should use it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - Gennady 11y ago
    Statment is wrong. If you look on Github/Graphs is stated in the Header Apr 7, 2013 – Nov 10, 2015 and neural network module which is veles.znicz Apr 7, 2013 – Nov 10, 2015
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- jsnathan 11y ago
  Not sure where you're getting this, it clearly says it's licensed Apache 2.0 Edit: Ah I see, in the footer they mention that the code of the website is released under CC-BY-SA. The code of the project is Apache though.
  - rinon 11y ago
    I'm an idiot... Randomly read the website footer and misinterpreted "This web site is copyright © Vadim Markovtsev, it's code is released under CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported at GitHub." Sorry.
outlace 11y ago
At least it looks like it supports OpenCL
- Gennady 11y ago
  Veles supports OpenCL, CUDA and NumPy (but NumPy is to slow and used for reference or to run Veles on notebook)
staticelf 11y ago
My firefox crashed when I visited the page D:
- zo1 11y ago
  Mine as well... Way too much stuff is going on on the "main" page of this site.
627467 11y ago
Have to hit Ctrl+A to highlight all text to read lot's of white-text-on-light-background.
Felix-Neko 11y ago
Фига, вы таки выложили код! Вах! ^__^

154 points by vmarkovtsev 11y ago

Seems like it was hastily launched to coincide with Google's? I guess now we have platform wars even on something so niche...

nicklo 11y ago
Not sure I agree with "hastily launched". First public commit to the github repo was January 14th 2014. Link: https://github.com/Samsung/veles/commit/7b19147069119399c89f98d84af450d8c8690035 https://github.com/Samsung/veles/commit/7b19147069119399c89f... The presumption that this or Google's Tensor Flow can be cobbled together in a few hours is completely absurd. These things take months if not years of development. And releasing them into the wild is not a process that takes 30 minutes. Open Sourcing a company library is a work intensive process that takes weeks if not months. Beyond the code itself there are a swatch of promotional materials to prepare. That said, I do agree that the submission itself to HN was in response to Google's Tensor Flow announcement. The submitter created their acct an hour ago and the only other activity is a comment on the google announcement talking about veles. Also the submission title was unnecessarily snarky.
- bhaumik 11y ago
  FWIW someone with the same username is listed as the #1 contributor: https://github.com/Samsung/veles/graphs/contributors https://github.com/Samsung/veles/graphs/contributors
- jaaron 11y ago
  eh, it's a topical post and let's others know there's more to this space than Google's offering. I don't mind it. Would you rather they have not posted?
- dang 11y ago
  We changed the title from "Veles – same as TensorFlow, but from Samsung", which was inappropriately editorialized. Unless an original title is misleading or linkbait, submitters should use it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Gennady 11y ago
  Statment is wrong. If you look on Github/Graphs is stated in the Header Apr 7, 2013 – Nov 10, 2015 and neural network module which is veles.znicz Apr 7, 2013 – Nov 10, 2015

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jsnathan 11y ago
Not sure where you're getting this, it clearly says it's licensed Apache 2.0 Edit: Ah I see, in the footer they mention that the code of the website is released under CC-BY-SA. The code of the project is Apache though.
- rinon 11y ago
  I'm an idiot... Randomly read the website footer and misinterpreted "This web site is copyright © Vadim Markovtsev, it's code is released under CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported at GitHub." Sorry.

outlace 11y ago

At least it looks like it supports OpenCL

Gennady 11y ago
Veles supports OpenCL, CUDA and NumPy (but NumPy is to slow and used for reference or to run Veles on notebook)

staticelf 11y ago

My firefox crashed when I visited the page D:

zo1 11y ago
Mine as well... Way too much stuff is going on on the "main" page of this site.

627467 11y ago

Have to hit Ctrl+A to highlight all text to read lot's of white-text-on-light-background.

Felix-Neko 11y ago

Фига, вы таки выложили код! Вах! ^__^