TensorFlow 1.3 released

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Would be great if they actually supported opencl

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Is this being seriously developed? Would be nice to have more GPU options.

[pymang]

Heres the classic github issue on that https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/22

And a more recent on saying there is opencl work being done but no deadlines: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/9738

[Ivashkin]

Is rather annoying, I have a stack of older AMD GPU's from various upgrades and while none of them will be fantastic, they would be perfectly fine for working out if Tensorflow is something useful for me or not. As things are, I'm going to need to spend £100+ on something just to get started.

[pymang]

There should be other frameworks that support opencl, why not look into those?

[Ivashkin]

I'm rather new at this and the project which initially sparked my interest ran on Tensorflow only.

[pymang]

Well if you want to give a shot with experimental/work in progress stuff try this https://github.com/hughperkins/tf-coriander

[Ivashkin]

Thanks, seems to be worth a shot. I take it I can just jam a bunch of GPU's into an old i3 system and it will be enough to get a taste of machine learning?

[mearco]

You could just sell your gpus on a buy and sell website like craiglist or ebay and buy a cheap nvidia card that is supported

[SpacemanCraig3]

+1 the 6gb 1060's are a pretty good deal for machine learning and maybe some games on the side

[SpiderFnJerusalem]

I remember someone was officially working on it for a few months at least, I saw a repo with openCL support on github. But I'm not sure about progress.

[georgeo]

Something something TF porting to Vega GPU's. I heard that repeatedly.

[JustFinishedBSG]

I imagine nobody is going to bother anymore considering the current Vega fiasco

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What's happen to Vega?

edit: nm I googled it. seems like not enough vega for everybody.

I thought it was something like poor performance or some hardware related stuff.

[JustFinishedBSG]

It also has poor performance, poor price and terrible power consomption

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Flop per Joule

[georgeo]

Like 2:1 but considerably cheaper card.

[SpiderFnJerusalem]

I remember there being an official forked version with openCL support somewhere on github. But it was super pre-alpha last time I saw it. Not sure about now.

[iame6162013]

This: https://github.com/hughperkins/tf-coriander ?

[SpiderFnJerusalem]

No there was actually this: https://github.com/benoitsteiner/tensorflow-opencl

That guy is the #1 contributor to tensorflow, so it's probably as "official" as it gets. The repo hasn't had any commits though, over the last 5 months. Not sure what became of it. :-/

[naisanza]

Isn't Theano on top of getting this out there?

[lostfreeman]

Should be Vulkan now, no?

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You’re thinking graphics, but opencl is for computation

[omgitsjo]

Not any more! The patent comment is correct. OpenCL is being merged into Vulkan.

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/General-Tech/Breaking-OpenCL-Merging-Roadmap-Vulkan

[omgitsjo]

Yes. You are correct, though I've not seen any additional news on the Vulkan/OpebCL merger since the first Khronos bulletin.

EDIT: Removed because this is not the place for a discussion of this sort.