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Darkroom trouble shooting #9

Open olivierspot opened 4 years ago

olivierspot commented 4 years ago

Hello @jameshegarty @jbrunhaver , DARKROOM_troubleshoot.pdf

My names is Olivier and I'm a current Master student at Carleton University. I'm working on a project which would use Darkroom if possible.

I am however facing issues with Darkroom so far. I'm using Ubuntu 18-04, the gitHub Darkroom as well as Terra 1.00 beta-1.zip

from the release as the 2015-08-03 won't compile it's hello world and returns a higher failure rate when using its run tests (453-70 vs 523-0).

Attached is a pdf with the key steps of both darkroom and terra setup. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Have a good day,

Olivier

stevenbell commented 4 years ago

Hi Olivier, I'll take a look next week when I'm my work computer to see if I've got a working installation of Darkroom left on the machine, and I'll let you know how it's configured.

Can you give a little more description what you'd like to use Darkroom for? After Darkroom, we moved on to some other projects (Rigel and Halide-HLS), both of which are more capable and better-supported than Darkroom at this point. It might be that one of these is a better fit for what you're trying to do.

Steven

jameshegarty commented 4 years ago

Hey Olivier, thanks for your interest. As Steven mentioned, this repo is super old, I think the last real commit was in 2015, and it almost certainly doesn’t work with the latest version of terra. Depending on what you want to do with it, Halide may be a better platform if you want to benchmark for cpu, or Rigel or halide-hls If you want to compare to something for hardware. Unfortunately, the hardware backend for darkroom was never released. Happy to discuss more.

If you really want to get darkroom working, prob finding a version of terra from that era that runs and using that will be the easiest thing. Ie, that old terra with the broken tests may actually run darkroom fine? (Iirc some of the tests may have been cuda related and may have failed for unimportant reasons)

olivierspot commented 4 years ago

I was going to use darkroom for FPGA circuit design to compare to vivado's capabilities. Ive since seen in a previous issue that the export function wasnt released. Thanks a lot. Ill take a look at HLS and Rigel.