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Yeah, ROCm is a bit of a mess. I actually have an AMD GPU in a server, but the drivers in the mainline kernel don't work properly, so have never been able to us
by ftyers 5y ago
Yeah, ROCm is a bit of a mess. I actually have an AMD GPU in a server, but the drivers in the mainline kernel don't work properly, so have never been able to use it.
If I were into conspiracy theories I'd say that AMDs failure to compete in the GPU/DL space is to do with the relationship between the AMD CEO and the NVIDIA one.
Tensorflow is just awful, as is anything that touches bazel :)
- hansvm 5y ago> Tensorflow is just awful, as is anything that touches bazel :) Mind if I ask why?
- ftyers 5y agoI wasted a week trying to replace the scorer component with a NN-based language model. Every time I made a change the whole codebase, including Tensorflow recompiled, so the turnaround time was about an hour per change. It was awful. I mean I get reproducible builds etc. and probably if you're running stuff at Google scale it has all kinds of useful features. But for development on a personal laptop it was torture. Eventually I gave up.
- hansvm 5y agoGot it, thank you. Fwiw, that sounds like a bug or a misconfiguration; it's absolutely supposed to have better caching behavior than that (and does in the few projects I've used it on, even on a personal laptop). If you're interested in pursuing it further (I'd understand if you aren't; that sounds frustrating), I bet the bazel team would be interested in your report.