1、什么是CUDA
CUDA(ComputeUnified Device Architecture),是显卡厂商NVIDIA推出的运算平台。 CUDA是一种由NVIDIA推出的通用并行计算架构,该架构使GPU能够解决复杂的计算问题。
2、什么是CUDNN
NVIDIA cuDNN是用于深度神经网络的GPU加速库。它强调性能、易用性和低内存开销。NVIDIA cuDNN可以集成到更高级别的机器学习框架中,如谷歌的Tensorflow、加州大学伯克利分校的流行caffe软件。简单的插入式设计可以让开发人员专注于设计和实现神经网络模型,而不是简单调整性能,同时还可以在GPU上实现高性能现代并行计算。
3、CUDA与CUDNN的关系
The NVIDIA CUDA® Deep Neural Network library (cuDNN) is a GPU-accelerated library of primitives for deep neural networks. cuDNN provides highly tuned implementations for standard routines such as forward and backward convolution, pooling, normalization, and activation layers.
Deep learning researchers and framework developers worldwide rely on cuDNN for high-performance GPU acceleration. It allows them to focus on training neural networks and developing software applications rather than spending time on low-level GPU performance tuning. cuDNN accelerates widely used deep learning frameworks, including Caffe,Caffe2, Chainer, Keras,MATLAB, MxNet, TensorFlow, and PyTorch. For access to NVIDIA optimized deep learning framework containers, that has cuDNN integrated into the frameworks, visit NVIDIA GPU CLOUD to learn more and get started.
CUDA看作是一个工作台,上面配有很多工具,如锤子、螺丝刀等。cuDNN是基于CUDA的深度学习GPU加速库,有了它才能在GPU上完成深度学习的计算。它就相当于工作的工具,比如它就是个扳手。但是CUDA这个工作台买来的时候,并没有送扳手。想要在CUDA上运行深度神经网络,就要安装cuDNN,就像你想要拧个螺帽就要把扳手买回来。这样才能使GPU进行深度神经网络的工作,工作速度相较CPU快很多。
作者:Sunglam
链接:https://www.jianshu.com/p/622f47f94784
来源:简书
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