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[jira] [Updated] (MXNET-4) Refactor Random and ParallelRandom resources to use MKL for MKL builds

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MXNET-4?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Chris Olivier updated MXNET-4:
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    Component/s: MXNet Engine

> Refactor Random and ParallelRandom resources to use MKL for MKL builds
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>                 Key: MXNET-4
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MXNET-4
>             Project: Apache MXNet
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: MXNet Engine
>            Reporter: Chris Olivier
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: mkl, performance
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> Refactor Random and ParallelRandom resources to use MKL for MKL builds
> Things such as RngUniform, etc.  Similarly to what is done for dropout operator.
> It may need to allocate some temporary memory and generate random numbers in batches, then serving them out from that batch. 
> Also the Random classes could export a "fill buffer with randoms" function, which seems to be a common use-case and fits the MKL API more closely.
> Care must be taken regarding MKL's fixed output types for some of the API functions.



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