* initial commit

* minor fix

* remove redundency

* address comments

* Save the inference model in Python example of recommender_system.

* Add infer() in Python unittest recommender_system.

* Add C++ inference unittest of recommender_system.

* Refine load

* Address review comments: round 1

* Make API consistent with python-save/load

* Add another unit test

* Remove commented function

* Fix GPU bug

* Address review comments

* Modify wrt PR 8147

* Fix filenames for combined case

* Fix typo

* Address review comments: round 2

* Unify TestInference by keeping default param in template

* Address review comment

* Fix spacing

* Fixing unbufered test to a generic test

* Update channel_test.cc

* splitting over functions

* add type

* fix *

* Adding more details to cluster_train

* Update copyright for notest_dist_image_classification

* Fixed copyright

* Updating the copyright year and content

Fix for program crash when destructor is called before channel close with blocked readers/writers (#8197)

* Fix destructor crash and add unit tests

* Fix typo in unit test

* Reword comments

* Make close channel a generic test

* Refactoring unit tests

* Fix method name

* Fix parallel.do with batch norm

* Change log level

* CopyShare AllPlaces

* disable nccl test

* bring back parallel_do test

Impl scalar switch case op with condition op

* set up python code

* fix bug

* add cc file

* fix cmake

* add inference test for label semantic role

* fix

* address comments

* address comments

* address comments

* address comments

* add use_cuda

* Adding panic logic and test case

* Change panic behavior to boolean instead of exception

* Adding atomic

* Switch to boolean

* Fix spacing

* Add to close method

* Add test case to return zero on a closed channel

* Rename method

* Fix test

* ReceiveFromBufferedChannelReturnResidualValuesTest

* Adding the variable and case for unbuffered channel

* Fix review comments

* Fix format

* Remove a zero-value comparison

* First basic implementation

* Add infer example for image_classification

* Address review comments: round 1

Change the behaviour of thread pool. Thread pool will ignore the
thrown exception implicitly. It is hard to debug.
Corrently, ThreadPool::Run will invoke `LOG(FATAL)` if an exception
thrown.