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Move DropoutLayer random number generator to GPU #7

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danielsuo opened this issue Nov 18, 2015 · 1 comment
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Move DropoutLayer random number generator to GPU #7

danielsuo opened this issue Nov 18, 2015 · 1 comment
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v0.2.0 Release

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Currently we rely on the CPU for random numbers. To make this slightly less painfully slow, we create a new thread, but this is slower than using the GPU and also causes problems in Windows (#4).
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vinjn commented Nov 19, 2015

cuRAND might be a good candidate.
https://developer.nvidia.com/curand

@danielsuo danielsuo modified the milestone: v0.2.0 Release Nov 21, 2015
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