When I was trying to run IPEX on DevCloud it is showing "Illegal instruction"

Question

I was trying image classification using IPEX on DevCloud but it is showing "Illegal instruction" for me.

qsub -I -l nodes=1:gpu:ppn=2 -d .
python3 inf.py

Answer 1

qsub -I -l nodes=1:gpu:ppn=2 -d .

This command is used to assign one full GPU node. IPEX don't support gpu as mentioned here: https://github.com/intel/intel-extension-for-pytorch/issues/149#issuecomment-812348623

This could be the reason for that error.

Try using below commands:

qsub -I
python3 inf.py

Answer 2

Recently, Intel® Extension for PyTorch* extends PyTorch with up-to-date features and optimizations on Intel GPU for an extra performance boost on Intel Graphics cards. Please check out the link, https://intel.github.io/intel-extension-for-pytorch/xpu/latest/index.html.