Source: cirosantilli/activatedgeek-lenet-5-run-on-gpu

= activatedgeek/LeNet-5 run on GPU

By default, the setup runs on <CPU> only, not <GPU>, as could be seen by running <htop>. But by the magic of <PyTorch>, modifying the program to run on the <GPU> is trivial:
``
cat << EOF | patch
diff --git a/run.py b/run.py
index 104d363..20072d1 100644
--- a/run.py
+++ b/run.py
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ data_test = MNIST('./data/mnist',
 data_train_loader = DataLoader(data_train, batch_size=256, shuffle=True, num_workers=8)
 data_test_loader = DataLoader(data_test, batch_size=1024, num_workers=8)

-net = LeNet5()
+device = 'cuda'
+net = LeNet5().to(device)
 criterion = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
 optimizer = optim.Adam(net.parameters(), lr=2e-3)

@@ -43,6 +44,8 @@ def train(epoch):
     net.train()
     loss_list, batch_list = [], []
     for i, (images, labels) in enumerate(data_train_loader):
+        labels = labels.to(device)
+        images = images.to(device)
         optimizer.zero_grad()

         output = net(images)
@@ -71,6 +74,8 @@ def test():
     total_correct = 0
     avg_loss = 0.0
     for i, (images, labels) in enumerate(data_test_loader):
+        labels = labels.to(device)
+        images = images.to(device)
         output = net(images)
         avg_loss += criterion(output, labels).sum()
         pred = output.detach().max(1)[1]
@@ -84,7 +89,7 @@ def train_and_test(epoch):
     train(epoch)
     test()

-    dummy_input = torch.randn(1, 1, 32, 32, requires_grad=True)
+    dummy_input = torch.randn(1, 1, 32, 32, requires_grad=True).to(device)
     torch.onnx.export(net, dummy_input, "lenet.onnx")

     onnx_model = onnx.load("lenet.onnx")
EOF
``
and leads to a faster runtime, with less `user` as now we are spending more time on the GPU than CPU:
``
real    1m27.829s
user    4m37.266s
sys     0m27.562s

``