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System Architecture

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Layered Architecture from Python API to GPU Hardware

Architecture Stack

Python API Layer

PyTorch-like interface for building and training neural networks

Pybind11 Bindings

C++ to Python bindings for seamless integration

Tensor Core

Memory management and tensor operations

CUDA Kernels

GPU-accelerated operations

GPU Hardware

NVIDIA GPU with CUDA cores

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Click on any layer in the architecture diagram to see detailed information about its components and functionality.

Data Flow

Forward Pass
Python → Pybind11 → Tensor → CUDA → GPU
Backward Pass
GPU → CUDA → Tensor → Autograd → Python
Memory Management
Reference counting for automatic cleanup

Performance

GPU Speedup5X
MNIST Accuracy97.48%

CUDA Operations

Matrix Multiply

op_mm.cuh

GEMM operation with optimized memory access

Element-wise

op_elemwise.cuh

Add, multiply, ReLU operations

Reduction

op_reduction.cuh

Sum, mean, argmax operations

Cross-Entropy

op_cross_entropy.cuh

Softmax + log loss fusion