How to speed up big workload?

[winkzy]

Hi Prof. Sun:
When I run a vgg test with “-timing”, the whole process is so slow that it takes hours to run a conv layer and days to run the whole network.
Is there any way to speed up the process, like turning off the web (I'm not sure?)? If I only care about the final kernel time performance, is there any way to turn off some of the tracking modules to get a speedup in the simulation?

[DX990307]

I think you use "-magic-memory-copy" to skip the memory copy procedure. But there is no good method to speed up big workloads...

[DX990307]

@syifan

[syifan]

-magic-memory-copy is definitely helpful. The web portal (AkitaRTM) is not adding much overhead. You may want to try to use this PR #126, which include the sampling method described in the Photon paper. I will likely to merge the PR soon.