could deepcl run on FPGAs?

[gamersover]

Is the DeepCL can only run on GPU or APU? Could it run on FPGAs? Such as altera?

[hughperkins]

It would need a bunch of work. Basically the way FPGAs work is that you first program them with the kernels, then you can run that same kernel over and over again. Programming takes ~hours.

You'd need to run a program in two stages:

• first, run deepcl with some flag (that you'd have to create, and implement :) ), to write out the kernels, send them to the FPGA programmer
• then, once the FPGA contains the kernels, you'd run deepcl again, with a different flag (that you'd have to create and implement...), to run the kernels

Typically, FPGAs suck for training, but give good power performance for runtime prediction.