After you complete the prerequisites and install the base Intel Nervana graph package as explained in the installation documentation, you will need to install some additional packages to run
Intel Nervana graph on various compute platforms.
Intel Nervana Graph at optimal performance on various compute platforms.
CPU/Intel® architecture transformer
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To run Intel Nervana graph on a CPU backend, you need to install Intel Nervana graph with Intel® Math Kernel Library for Deep Neural Networks (Intel® MKL-DNN) support:
To run Intel Nervana graph with optimal performance on a CPU backend, you need to install Intel Nervana graph with Intel® Math Kernel Library for Deep Neural Networks (Intel® MKL-DNN) support:
1. Download Intel® MKL-DNN from `here <https://github.com/01org/mkl-dnn>`_.
2. Follow the installation instructions in the `README.md <https://github.com/01org/mkl-dnn/blob/master/README.md>`_ to install MKL-DNN.
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Virtual environment activation
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We recommend installing Intel Nervana graph inside a virtual environment. Make sure that you have installed all prerequisites in the installation documentation
The virtual environemt for Intel Nervana Graph is created when you install the prerequisites described in the installation documentation