提交 94dfd864 编写于 作者: H Helin Wang

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......@@ -6,26 +6,36 @@ This design doc proposes to have an object called *Session* which
encapsulates the environment in which the computation graph is
executed.
The session is able to distinguish running a graph locally or
remotely, using CPU only or using one or more GPUs. Different sessions
have different runtime environments such as [scopes](./scope.md) and
device contexts.
## Background
A computation graph is executed in an environment which contains the
[scope](./scope.md) and other states. PaddlePaddle used to only have
an implicit global session on which `paddle.eval()` is executed.
A computation graph runs in an environment which contains states such
as the scope and device contexts. The current design has an implicit
global session on which `paddle.eval()` is executed.
Since the user is not able to explicitly switch between runtime
environments such as the scope and the device contexts, the user
cannot run a topology in two independent environments. For example, in
reinforcement learning, the user may want to have a stale model for
inference and a fresh model for training, and only replace the stale
model with the fresh model periodically. Also, we have no concept that
can encapsulate a remote environment that could execute a computation
graph.
This has the limitation that the user can not create two independent
environments. For example, in reinforcement learning, the user may
want to have a stale model for inference and a fresh model for
training, and only replace the stale model with the fresh model
periodically. Also, we have no concept that can encapsulate a remote
environment that could execute a computation graph.
We need a session concept to address above issues.
## Session
Session is an object that owns all runtime states such as scope,
A session is an object that owns all runtime states such as scope,
reader OP's file handles, connection to a remote PaddlePaddle cluster,
etc.
Session has two methods: `eval` and `close`. `eval` executes the
The session has two methods: `eval` and `close`. `eval` executes the
target OP in a given graph, and `close` closes the session and
releases all related resources:
......@@ -51,7 +61,7 @@ image = reader.column(0)
label = reader.column(1)
fc1 = paddle.op.fc(image, size=256, act="sigmoid")
fc2 = paddle.op.fc(fc1, size=10, act="softmax")
cost = paddle.op.cross_entropy(fc2)
cost = paddle.op.cross_entropy(fc2, label)
opt = paddle.optimizer.sgd(cost)
remote_config = ... # remote configuration such as endpoint, number of nodes and authentication.
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