# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one # or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file # distributed with this work for additional information # regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file # to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the # "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance # with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, # software distributed under the License is distributed on an # "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY # KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the # specific language governing permissions and limitations # under the License. # coding: utf-8 """Context management API of mxnet.""" from __future__ import absolute_import class Context(object): """Constructs a context. MXNet can run operations on CPU and different GPUs. A context describes the device type and ID on which computation should be carried on. One can use mx.cpu and mx.gpu for short. See also ---------- `How to run MXNet on multiple CPU/GPUs ` for more details. Parameters ---------- device_type : {'cpu', 'gpu'} or Context. String representing the device type. device_id : int (default=0) The device id of the device, needed for GPU. Note ---- Context can also be used as a way to change the default context. Examples -------- >>> # array on cpu >>> cpu_array = mx.nd.ones((2, 3)) >>> # switch default context to GPU(2) >>> with mx.Context(mx.gpu(2)): ... gpu_array = mx.nd.ones((2, 3)) >>> gpu_array.context gpu(2) One can also explicitly specify the context when creating an array. >>> gpu_array = mx.nd.ones((2, 3), mx.gpu(1)) >>> gpu_array.context gpu(1) """ # static class variable default_ctx = None devtype2str = {1: 'cpu', 2: 'gpu', 3: 'cpu_pinned'} devstr2type = {'cpu': 1, 'gpu': 2, 'cpu_pinned': 3} def __init__(self, device_type, device_id=0): if isinstance(device_type, Context): self.device_typeid = device_type.device_typeid self.device_id = device_type.device_id else: self.device_typeid = Context.devstr2type[device_type] self.device_id = device_id self._old_ctx = None @property def device_type(self): """Returns the device type of current context. Examples ------- >>> mx.context.current_context().device_type 'cpu' >>> mx.current_context().device_type 'cpu' Returns ------- device_type : str """ return Context.devtype2str[self.device_typeid] def __hash__(self): """Compute hash value of context for dictionary lookup""" return hash((self.device_typeid, self.device_id)) def __eq__(self, other): """Compares two contexts. Two contexts are equal if they have the same device type and device id. """ return isinstance(other, Context) and \ self.device_typeid == other.device_typeid and \ self.device_id == other.device_id def __str__(self): return '%s(%d)' % (self.device_type, self.device_id) def __repr__(self): return self.__str__() def __enter__(self): self._old_ctx = Context.default_ctx Context.default_ctx = self return self def __exit__(self, ptype, value, trace): Context.default_ctx = self._old_ctx # initialize the default context in Context Context.default_ctx = Context('cpu', 0) def cpu(device_id=0): """Returns a CPU context. This function is a short cut for ``Context('cpu', device_id)``. For most operations, when no context is specified, the default context is `cpu()`. Examples ---------- >>> with mx.Context('cpu', 1): ... cpu_array = mx.nd.ones((2, 3)) >>> cpu_array.context cpu(1) >>> with mx.cpu(1): ... cpu_array = mx.nd.ones((2, 3)) >>> cpu_array.context cpu(1) Parameters ---------- device_id : int, optional The device id of the device. `device_id` is not needed for CPU. This is included to make interface compatible with GPU. Returns ------- context : Context The corresponding CPU context. """ return Context('cpu', device_id) def gpu(device_id=0): """Returns a GPU context. This function is a short cut for Context('gpu', device_id). The K GPUs on a node are typically numbered as 0,...,K-1. Examples ---------- >>> with mx.Context('gpu', 1): ... gpu_array = mx.nd.ones((2, 3)) >>> gpu_array.context gpu(1) >>> with mx.gpu(1): ... gpu_array = mx.nd.ones((2, 3)) >>> gpu_array.context gpu(1) Parameters ---------- device_id : int, optional The device id of the device, needed for GPU. Returns ------- context : Context The corresponding GPU context. """ return Context('gpu', device_id) def current_context(): """Returns the current context. By default, `mx.cpu()` is used for all the computations and it can be overridden by using `with mx.Context(x)` statement where x can be cpu(device_id) or gpu(device_id). Examples ------- >>> mx.current_context() cpu(0) >>> with mx.Context('gpu', 1): # Context changed in `with` block. ... mx.current_context() # Computation done here will be on gpu(1). ... gpu(1) >>> mx.current_context() # Back to default context. cpu(0) Returns ------- default_ctx : Context """ return Context.default_ctx