This guide shows how to build an Intel® Extension for TensorFlow* PyPI package from source and install it in Ubuntu 20.04 (64-bit).
Verified Hardware Platforms:
Python 3.7 or newer is Required.
An Intel GPU driver is needed to build with GPU support and AOT (Ahead-of-time compilation).
Refer to Install Intel GPU driver.
Note: Please make sure to install developer run-time packages before building Intel® Extension for TensorFlow*.
Install TensorFlow 2.10 and refer to Install TensorFlow.
Check TensorFlow version:
python -c "import tensorflow as tf;print(tf.__version__)"
Refer to Install oneAPI Base Toolkit Packages
To build Intel® Extension for TensorFlow*, install Bazel 4.2.1 or later ones. Refer to install Bazel.
Here are the recommended commands:
$ wget https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/download/4.2.1/bazel-4.2.1-installer-linux-x86_64.sh
$ bash bazel-4.2.1-installer-linux-x86_64.sh --user
Check Bazel:
bazel --version
$ git clone https://github.com/intel/intel-extension-for-tensorflow.git intel-extension-for-tensorflow
$ cd intel-extension-for-tensorflow
Change to release branch (Optional):
The repo defaults to the master
development branch. You can also check out a release branch to build:
$ git checkout branch_name
Configure your system build by running the ./configure
command at the root of your Intel® Extension for TensorFlow* source tree. This script prompts you for the location of Intel® Extension for TensorFlow* dependencies and asks for additional build configuration options (path to DPC++ compiler, for example).
./configure
- For GPU
You have bazel 4.2.1 installed.
Python binary path: /path/to/python
Found possible Python library paths:
['/path/to/python/site-packages']
Do you wish to build Intel® Extension for TensorFlow* with GPU support? [Y/n]:
GPU support will be enabled for Intel® Extension for TensorFlow*.
Please specify the location where DPC++ is installed. [Default is /opt/intel/oneapi/compiler/latest/linux/]: /path/to/DPC++
Please specify the Ahead of Time(AOT) compilation platforms, separate with "," for multi-targets. [Default is ]: ats-m150
Do you wish to build Intel® Extension for TensorFlow* with MKL support? [y/N]: y
MKL support will be enabled for Intel® Extension for TensorFlow*.
Please specify the MKL toolkit folder. [Default is /opt/intel/oneapi/mkl/latest]: /path/to/oneMKL
Preconfigured Bazel build configs. You can use any of the below by adding "--config=<>" to your build command. See .bazelrc for more details.
--config=gpu # Build Intel® Extension for TensorFlow* with GPU support.
Configuration finished
- For CPU
You have bazel 4.2.1 installed.
Python binary path: /path/to/python
Found possible Python library paths:
['/path/to/python/site-packages']
Do you wish to build Intel® Extension for TensorFlow* with GPU support? [Y/n]: N
No GPU support will be enabled for Intel® Extension for TensorFlow*.
Only CPU support is available for Intel® Extension for TensorFlow*.
Preconfigured Bazel build configs. You can use any of the below by adding "--config=<>" to your build command. See .bazelrc for more details.
--config=cpu # Build Intel® Extension for TensorFlow* with CPU support.
Configuration finished
GPU support
Set "build Intel® Extension for TensorFlow* with GPU support" to Y
if you want to build with Intel GPU support. Set to N
if build for CPU only. Default is Y
.
Location of DPC++
The path to DPC++ compiler. Default is /opt/intel/oneapi/compiler/latest/linux/
.
AOT (Ahead-of-time compilation)
An optional option benefits from the initialization time of GPU kernels at runtime, but increases the binary size on the other hand, which requires GPU driver to be ready on building machine.
Reference for AOT compilation platforms:
GPU card | AOT target | Comments |
---|---|---|
Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series 170 | ats-m150 |
The Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series (formerly code-named Arctic Sound-M) with high-power, 150W adapter. |
For more GPU platforms, please refer to Use AOT for Integrated Graphics (Intel GPU).
$ bazel build -c opt --config=gpu //itex/tools/pip_package:build_pip_package
$ bazel build -c opt --config=cpu //itex/tools/pip_package:build_pip_package
$ bazel-bin/itex/tools/pip_package/build_pip_package ~/
It will generate two wheels:
- intel_extension_for_tensorflow-*.whl
- intel_extension_for_tensorflow_lib-*.whl
The Intel_extension_for_tensorflow_lib will differentiate between the CPU version or the GPU version
- CPU version identifier is {ITEX_VERSION}.0
- GPU version identifier is {ITEX_VERSION}.1
For example
ITEX version | ITEX-lib CPU version | ITEX-lib GPU version |
---|---|---|
1.0.0 | 1.0.0.0 | 1.0.0.1 |
$ pip install ~/intel_extension_for_tensorflow*.whl
or
$ pip install ~/intel_extension_for_tensorflow-*.whl
$ pip install ~/intel_extension_for_tensorflow_lib-*.whl
- located at
path/to/site-packages/
├── intel_extension_for_tensorflow
| ├── libitex_common.so
│ └── python
│ └── _pywrap_itex.so
├── intel_extension_for_tensorflow_lib
├── tensorflow
├── tensorflow-plugins
| ├── libitex_cpu.so # for CPU-only build
│ └── libitex_gpu.so # for GPU build
$ pip uninstall intel_extension_for_tensorflow_lib
$ pip uninstall intel_extension_for_tensorflow