Apache SINGA vs Chainer
Apache SINGA
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| Figure | Apache SINGA | Chainer |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Deep Learning Software | 8.2 (#8) | 7.9 (#14) |
| GPU support | The installation guide documents GPU packages using CUDA and cuDNN, and Docker images for Nvidia GPUs. | Chainer supports CUDA computation and multi-GPU use; CUDA support requires CuPy, and cuDNN support is optional. |
| Installation | The site documents installation using pip, Docker, or from source, and also lists Conda as an installation option. | The documentation recommends installing Chainer with pip and also describes installation from a source tarball or Git repository. |
| License | The SINGA history page says the project is released under Apache License Version 2.0. | The GitHub repository identifies Chainer's license as the MIT License. |
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Apache SINGA
Apache SINGA is a free distributed deep-learning library for training deep-learning and machine-learning models. Its listed training mode is local, with data-parallel training across multiple GPUs on one node or across multiple nodes. GPU packages use CUDA and cuDNN, and Docker images are available for Nvidia GPUs. Installation options include pip, Docker, Conda, and source builds; pip documentation covers Python 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11. SINGA supports Python and C++, loads ONNX models, and can save models defined through its APIs in ONNX format. Optimizers listed include momentum-based stochastic gradient descent, Adam, RMSProp, and AdaGrad. Models can be queried in an RDBMS. The repository and Google Colab provide domain-specific models, including healthcare and science examples. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, and self-hosted environments, with on-premises deployment and Apache License 2.0 licensing.