# Can fortran be used for Training GANs in ML?

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can fortran be used to train Generative adversarial networks like StyleGANs on gpu ? Is it easier to train on GPUs with fortran rather than python ? I have a dataset of 20Gb of non labelled facial data and Nvidia Tesla V100.

Thanks and Regards,  
Henil Shalin Panchal

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I don’t think so. The official NVIDIA Labs code uses Python/Tensorflow with GPUs for training: [GitHub - NVlabs/stylegan: StyleGAN - Official TensorFlow Implementation](https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan)

Fortran machine learning frameworks are scarce and GPU programming in Fortran receives far less support compared to C/C++/Julia/Python. I’m sure you could access the [cuDNN](https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/cudnn/developer-guide/index.html) or the [Intel® oneDNN](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/oneapi/onednn.html#gs.6q9zqr) library directly from Fortran using C bindings, but it would likely involve a lot of effort. AFAIK, the Python frameworks are calling the same optimized vendor libraries. You just need to make sure you’ve get them installed correctly with GPU support enabled.