* add dist transpiler unit test

* update by comment

* update by comment

* fix ci

* fix ci

* add manylinux docker image usage

* update by comment

* update by comment

refine EngineIOConverter, and use io_convert in test_trt_activation_op

Change cmake for build doc

* Fix a bug related to dispensable inputs and refine the inference unittest.

* Fix the use of dispensable inputs in reshape_op.

* Polish the enforce statements.

* Fix an English writing typo.

[Feature] NCCL2 distributed training

Check the system requirements

"fix dtype ci error"

* test_patch_mkldnn

* use patch file

* follow comments

* fix patch

Reusing of softmax mkldnn primitives

Fix order of prior boxes.

Balance parameter_opt between cards

matmul support float16/double

Parallel Executor revised feeder

* Update the mnist test cases with the new API syntax.

* Turn on the tests for MNIST

* delete the test files got merged accidently.

* Enable the mnist tests. ready for test driven development.

* Comment out the infer first
This is to confirm that the Trainer.train is working

* Add CMake file to include the tests

* Make the train program only return avg_cost for now

* Update the tests to use the latest syntax

typo fixed

* add Inference.infer

* optimize code

* update no_test_word2vec_new_api.py

* update trainer

* split check_and_get_place

* use inference_program to save inference model in Trainer

* update demo

* update save_inference_model

* clean code

- Added hash function inside of MKLDNN softmax op to be used as handle for primitives stroing in a
context

- Style fixes to softmax mkldnn op

- Fixes after review

- Coding style

- Fix to style

- style fixes

- style fix

- style fixes

- Fix to cody style check

- Rephrasing a comment