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Carl Lange

08:27

I suppose we'll have an ARM version of Mathematica at some point soon, if Apple is switching from Intel to ARM: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/…

(I suppose the Raspberry Pi version is ARM already, but iirc it's a little hobbled and some things aren't implemented, though I could be wrong)

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C. E.

09:53

@CarlLange Remember back in 2005 when Theodore Gray (and possible someone else - the full story is somewhere) ported Mathematica to Intel's architecture in two hours and Mathematica became the first external application to run on that architecture.

I expect we'll see the new ARM version later today ;)

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kirkus

13:01

@CarlLange excited to see the performance if/when they exploit the Neural Engine.

Carl Lange

13:34

@kirkus I'm pretty sure MXNet doesn't support ARM at all, so we might be waiting a while... But I am curious to see if we can have a replacement for OpenCL at some point soonish, since it's been heavily deprecated

kirma

@CarlLange Yeah, even AMD GPUs are not supported to my knowledge, and one would assume that would be on relatively high priority when macOS is probably the most polished Mma version, but Apple doesn't support AMD GPUs on MacBooks (Pro)s...

Carl Lange

@C.E. Oh, I do remember reading about that. I wonder now how many architectures all the versions of MMA have ever run on. PowerPC of course - 68xxx?

@kirma Yes, I do kind of wonder why they picked MXNet. although it seems very few, if any, NN libraries support AMD cards

It makes me sad because I bought this computer partially to play with ML stuff, without realising that the AMD card would be useless

kirkus

14:08

@CarlLange oh yeah, people already have ARM builds of it (medium.com/@virajdeshwal/building-mxnet-for-arch64-97f983dd6d37), but on top of that, there would have to be a Core ML interface written, which I'm sure someone will do.

now, given how long it took us just to get a 64-bit front end, I'm not saying I'm optimistic about the timeline :)

interesting. pypi.org/project/mxnet-to-coreml

so definitely some work around the edges already, at least.

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kirkus

14:43

@CarlLange ah, looks it already has a native ARM build for the Pi: mxnet.apache.org/…;

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Carl Lange

15:54

@kirkus Very interesting...

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Craig Carter

18:22

@b3ma21 thanks for asking (nice to have that J.F. resource), glad I didn’t put too much time into it. I would be a nice feature.

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Stephen_Wolfram's Twitch video RSS: Wolfram Physics Project: Working Session Monday, Apr. 20, 2020 [Spin & Charge | Part 2]

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