[NLPL Task Force (A)] OpenNMT installation for NLPL (on Abel)

[Stephan Oepen]

colleagues,

joerg, martin, and i talked about getting the new release version of
OpenNMT installed for NLPL.  it appears it requires the most recent
version of PyTorch, which currently is not available on Taito.  martin
will ask for it to be installed by CSC.

in parallel, i believe i managed to put an NLPL-owned installation of
the right PyTorch version onto Abel, please see:

http://wiki.nlpl.eu/index.php/Infrastructure/pytorch

before announcing this more widely, i would be grateful for some
testing, in particular for both cpu and gpu usage.  would anyone we
readily set up to give this a shot on Abel?

assuming our PyTorch is healthy, would someone from the helsinki team
have the time to try and install OpenNMT onto Abel, e.g. as

/projects/nlpl/software/opennmt-py/0.2.1

there have been two relatively recent requests for OpenNMT in oslo
(one of them for seq2seq dependency parsing :-), so i believe it would
now be warranted to provide it on both systems.

best wishes, oe