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To: Fis Trivial <ybbs.daans@hotmail.com>
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On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 04:43:50AM +0000, Fis Trivial wrote:
> Sorry for bothering with a completely unrelated topic.
> I'm curious do you train neural network with packages in Guix? Or did
> you packaged related libraries yourself?
> 
> I would love to let guix handle all machine learning libraries for me,
> but many of them, especially those nn libraries, require GPU to
> accelerate the speed. But, AFAIK, currently there are no GPU compute
> stack can meet GNU's standard. Unable to put it upstream somehow makes
> me lazy to package them.

Dennis did some work packaging opencl and arrayfire. It is in here:

  https://gitlab.com/genenetwork/guix-bioinformatics/tree/master/gn/packages

and may be a reasonable starting point. 

For the propriety stuff, it won't make it into trunk, but you can
still package it and share.

Pj.
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