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Utilizing hardware AI accelerators with PyTorch


I'm pretty new to StackOverflow, but also to using PyTorch. I'm an AI and CS major, and I'm working on a project involving processing video with ML models. I'm not going to get into the details because I want any answers to this question to be generally accessible to others using pytorch, but the issue is I'm using pytorch with vapoursynth at the moment, accelerating both with CUDA, but I'm looking into purchasing as AI accelerator like this:

Amazon

Documentation on using these with Tensorflow is pretty easy to find, but I'm having trouble trying to answer for myself how I can use one of these with PyTorch. Does anybody have experience with this? I'd simply like to be able to use this card to accelerate training a Neural Net.


Solution

  • It is correct that you would need to convert your code to run on XLA, but that includes only changing few lines in your code. Please refer to https://github.com/pytorch/xla README doc for references and guides. With few modifications you can get significant training speedup.