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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c00743c --- /dev/null +++ b/README.rst @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +NERV Toolkit +============ + +NOTE: This readme is in-progress. + +Installation +------------ +First, make sure you have at least one implementation of BLAS and CUDA installed +on your computer. + +- Checkout NERV: + + :: + + bash + git clone https://speechlab.sjtu.edu.cn/gitlab/nerv-dev/nerv.git + +- Checkout submodules (luajit, luarocks, Penlight, etc.): + + :: + + cd nerv + git submodule init && git submodule update + +- Build NERV: you can specify either ``mkl`` or ``atlas`` to ``BLAS_TYPE``. + ``BLAS_BASE`` is the directory containing BLAS ``.so`` files. By default, + ``atlas`` is used for ``BLAS_TYPE``, ``/usr/lib/`` is used for ``BLAS_BASE``, + and ``/usr/local/cuda`` is used for ``CUDA_BASE``. + + :: + + # an example for compiling on SJTU Speechlab major cluster + make BLAS_TYPE=mkl BLAS_BASE=/home/intel/mkl/lib/intel64/ CUDA_BASE=/usr/local/cuda + +- To include some new features (e.g. ``atomicCAS`` in CUDA), add corresponding flags to + ``NERV_FEAT`` (e.g. ``NERV_FEAT=-D__NERV_FUTURE_CUDA_7``) while making: + + :: + + make NERV_FEAT=-D__NERV_FUTURE_CUDA_7 BLAS_TYPE=mkl BLAS_BASE=/home/intel/mkl/lib/intel64/ CUDA_BASE=/usr/local/cuda + +- For speech tasks, you need to install related lua rocks (Lua packages): + + :: + + # checkout speech repository to local directory nerv/speech (suppose you're + # still at the root directory of NERV repo) + git clone https://speechlab.sjtu.edu.cn/gitlab/nerv-dev/nerv-speech.git speech + # build and install HTK I/O support, Kaldi I/O support, Kaldi decoding support, etc. + make speech BLAS_TYPE=mkl BLAS_BASE=/home/intel/mkl/lib/intel64/ + +Example & Tutorial +------------------ +For speech tasks, please refer to ``tutorial/`` in ``nerv-speech`` repository. + +Contribution +------------ +The basic rule is simple: just fork the original repository, then create a pull +request (merge request) to the administrator of the project. If you want to fix +any bugs in existing code, don't hesitate to create a pull (merge) request to +the repository with clear and detailed analysis of the problem. If you want to +add additional task-specific functionalities (modules) for speech to NERV, +please create a luarocks-compliant package and also a pull (merge) request to +the ``nerv-speech`` repository instead of ``nerv``. |