[TVM Discuss] [Development/RFC] [RFC][VTA] Support for Cloud Devices (OpenCL-compatible)

2020-06-14 Thread elnaz92 via TVM Discuss
Thanks @zhanghaohit I like to have your opinion on using soft cores for pcie based fpgas. Rather than going through the high latency communications between the host and fpga or as you did running all the middle layers on the fpga itself, we can offload runtime stuff on a soft core (nios, micr

[TVM Discuss] [Development/RFC] [RFC][VTA] Support for Cloud Devices (OpenCL-compatible)

2020-06-11 Thread elnaz92 via TVM Discuss
Thank you @zhanghaohit. In one of your posts above you mentioned that you have implemented theproposal. Have you tested it with some models? which fpga board you used? what are the performance numbers compared to vta on fpga soc? Is your code available in a repo somewhere? I really like to te

[TVM Discuss] [Development/RFC] [RFC][VTA] Support for Cloud Devices (OpenCL-compatible)

2020-06-10 Thread elnaz92 via TVM Discuss
Hi It seems that there is already runtime support for PCIe based FPGAs (https://discuss.tvm.ai/t/tvm-monthly-july-2019/3600). Is that right? @liangfu @thierry @hjiang @remotego @zhanghaohit Thank you --- [Visit Topic](https://discuss.tvm.ai/t/rfc-vta-support-for-cloud-devices-opencl

[TVM Discuss] [Development/RFC] [VTA] Using VTA on a platform withrouth a CPU core

2020-06-10 Thread elnaz92 via TVM Discuss
Hi, I'm new to TVM and want to use VTA on our Intel Stratix10 FPGA. I have some questions regarding that, any feedback would be greatly appreciated. 1- Considering that there is no hard core on our FPGA board, how should we use the runtime? Should we just keep it on the host side/compile mach