[QDP] 12/11 biweekly community sync

[rich7420]

• Unit test and integration test
• latency benchmark
• I/O barrier
• python interface
• IPC pipeline

[rich7420]

Toy dataset benchmark

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set float32 to default

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Using allocation and double-buffered async I/O to solve I/O barrier issue

[rich7420]

I'd like to improve e2e benchmark through cleaning cache and memory between stages.

[rich7420]

I think we could merge norm and encode into a kernel method

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dynamically allocate cpu cores