Paths for Software Porting

Before compiling and installing the software, plan the software and dependency installation paths. The planned installation paths are used as examples in subsequent sections.

This chapter provides details on the software installation paths involved in setting up the benchmarking system for search and recommendation ranking models, as shown in Table 1 and Table 2.

**Table 1** Software installation paths for model training
No.	Software Installation Path	Purpose	Description
1	/path/to/tensorflow115	Installation path of TensorFlow 1.15	The installation paths provided here are for reference only. Shared paths are recommended. The actual installation paths may be different, and you need to change the installation paths in subsequent commands in this document based on the actual situation.
2	/path/to/model_zoo/download	Path for storing external dependencies for building TensorFlow and TensorFlow Serving
3	/path/to/bazel026	Installation path of Bazel 0.26.0
4	/path/to/sra_benchmark	Path for storing the ModelZoo model repository
5	/path/to/dataset	Path for storing the ModelZoo model training dataset

**Table 2** Software installation paths for model inference
No.	Software Installation Path	Purpose	Description
1	/path/to/serving	Installation path of TensorFlow Serving 2.15	The installation paths provided here are for reference only. Shared paths are recommended. The actual installation paths may be different, and you need to change the installation paths in subsequent commands in this document based on the actual situation.
2	/path/to/tensorflow	Installation path of TensorFlow 2.15
3	/path/to/sra-tensorflow	Repository path of the TensorFlow optimization patch
4	/path/to/sra-serving	Repository path of the TensorFlow Serving optimization patch
5	/path/to/model_zoo/download	Path for storing external dependencies for building TensorFlow and TensorFlow Serving
6	/path/to/bazel	Installation path of Bazel 6.5.0
7	/path/to/model_zoo/models	Path for storing the search and recommendation models for benchmark testing
8	/path/to/model_zoo/annc-models	Path for storing the model optimized using Accelerated Neural Network Compiler (ANNC)