ONNX Runtime: cross-platform, high performance ML inferencing and training accelerator
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Improve dependency management (#13523)
## Description
1. Convert some git submodules to cmake external projects
2. Update nsync from
[1.23.0](https://github.com/google/nsync/releases/tag/1.23.0) to
[1.25.0](https://github.com/google/nsync/releases/tag/1.25.0)
3. Update re2 from 2021-06-01 to 2022-06-01
4. Update wil from an old commit to 1.0.220914.1 tag
5. Update gtest to a newer commit so that it can optionally leverage
absl/re2 for parsing command line flags.

The following git submodules are deleted:

1. FP16
2. safeint
3. XNNPACK
4. cxxopts
5. dlpack
7. flatbuffers
8. googlebenchmark
9. json
10. mimalloc
11. mp11
12. pthreadpool

More will come.

## Motivation and Context
There are 3 ways of integrating 3rd party C/C++ libraries into ONNX
Runtime:
1. Install them to a system location, then use cmake's find_package
module to locate them.
2.  Use git submodules 
6.  Use cmake's external projects(externalproject_add). 

At first when this project was just started, we considered both option 2
and option 3. We preferred option 2 because:

1. It's easier to handle authentication. At first this project was not
open source, and it had some other non-public dependencies. If we use
git submodule, ADO will handle authentication smoothly. Otherwise we
need to manually pass tokens around and be very careful on not exposing
them in build logs.
2. At that time, cmake fetched dependencies after "cmake" finished
generating vcprojects/makefiles. So it was very difficult to make cflags
consistent. Since cmake 3.11, it has a new command: FetchContent, which
fetches dependencies when it generates vcprojects/makefiles just before
add_subdirectories, so the parent project's variables/settings can be
easily passed to the child projects.

And when the project went on,  we had some new concerns:
1. As we started to have more and more EPs and build configs, the number
of submodules grew quickly. For more developers, most ORT submodules are
not relevant to them. They shouldn't need to download all of them.
2. It is impossible to let two different build configs use two different
versions of the same dependency. For example, right now we have protobuf
3.18.3 in the submodules. Then every EP must use the same version.
Whenever we have a need to upgrade protobuf, we need to coordinate
across the whole team and many external developers. I can't manage it
anymore.
3. Some projects want to manage the dependencies in a different way,
either because of their preference or because of compliance
requirements. For example, some Microsoft teams want to use vcpkg, but
we don't want to force every user of onnxruntime using vcpkg.
7. Someone wants to dynamically link to protobuf, but our build script
only does static link.
8. Hard to handle security vulnerabilities. For example, whenever
protobuf has a security patch, we have a lot of things to do. But if we
allowed people to build ORT with a different version of protobuf without
changing ORT"s source code, the customer who build ORT from source will
be able to act on such things in a quicker way. They will not need to
wait ORT having a patch release.
9. Every time we do a release, github will also publish a source file
zip file and a source file tarball for us. But they are not usable,
because they miss submodules.
 
### New features

After this change, users will be able to:
1. Build the dependencies in the way they want, then install them to
somewhere(for example, /usr or a temp folder).
2. Or download the dependencies by using cmake commands from these
dependencies official website
3. Similar to the above, but use your private mirrors to migrate supply
chain risks.
4. Use different versions of the dependencies, as long as our source
code is compatible with them. For example, you may use you can't use
protobuf 3.20.x as they need code changes in ONNX Runtime.
6.  Only download the things the current build needs.
10. Avoid building external dependencies again and again in every build.

### Breaking change
The onnxruntime_PREFER_SYSTEM_LIB build option is removed you could think from now 
it is default ON. If you don't like the new behavior, you can set FETCHCONTENT_TRY_FIND_PACKAGE_MODE to NEVER.
Besides, for who relied on the onnxruntime_PREFER_SYSTEM_LIB build
option, please be aware that this PR will change find_package calls from
Module mode to Config mode. For example, in the past if you have
installed protobuf from apt-get from ubuntu 20.04's official repo,
find_package can find it and use it. But after this PR, it won't. This
is because that protobuf version provided by Ubuntu 20.04 is too old to
support the "config mode". It can be resolved by getting a newer version
of protobuf from somewhere.
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.config Update tsaoptions.json: update the email alias (#13448) 2022-10-26 15:56:16 -07:00
.devcontainer Remove two lines in the Dockerfile for Github Codespace (#12278) 2022-07-21 20:52:17 -07:00
.gdn Update compliance tasks in python packaging pipeline and fix some compile warnings (#8471) 2021-07-30 17:16:37 -07:00
.github Convert label config to one line regexes (#13702) 2022-11-19 11:38:29 -08:00
.pipelines [DML EP] Upgrade DML to 1.10.0 (#13796) 2022-11-30 21:32:14 -08:00
.vscode cpplint & Eager mode: refactor and add comments to empty_* functions, general lint cleanup in ort_aten (#12238) 2022-07-20 11:47:57 -04:00
cgmanifests Improve dependency management (#13523) 2022-12-01 09:51:59 -08:00
cmake Improve dependency management (#13523) 2022-12-01 09:51:59 -08:00
csharp skip quantized model C# tests on GPU (#13782) 2022-12-01 12:33:20 +08:00
dockerfiles Upgrade cmake version to 3.24 (#13569) 2022-11-04 22:58:51 -07:00
docs [DML EP] Add DML implementation for BiasGelu (#13795) 2022-12-01 09:23:19 -08:00
include/onnxruntime/core Fallback Pow op in layer norm to FP32 in TRT to avoid overflow (#13639) 2022-11-29 13:37:31 -08:00
java [java] Sparse tensor support (#10653) 2022-11-22 10:29:24 -08:00
js [js/rn] support load model from buffer on Android (#12676) 2022-11-30 10:55:55 -08:00
objectivec Remove SafeInt dependency from Objective-C API. (#13698) 2022-11-18 17:06:12 -08:00
onnxruntime Improve dependency management (#13523) 2022-12-01 09:51:59 -08:00
orttraining Improve DORT document (#13790) 2022-11-30 16:55:25 -08:00
package/rpm Bumping up version number to 1.14.0 on main branch (#13401) 2022-10-21 19:16:44 -04:00
samples Format all python files under onnxruntime with black and isort (#11324) 2022-04-26 09:35:16 -07:00
tools Improve dependency management (#13523) 2022-12-01 09:51:59 -08:00
winml Fix C26436 prefast errors (#13774) 2022-12-01 09:07:44 -08:00
.clang-format Initial bootstrap commit. 2018-11-19 16:48:22 -08:00
.clang-tidy Create clang-tidy CI (#12653) 2022-09-30 08:05:38 -07:00
.dockerignore Update dockerfiles (#5929) 2020-11-25 15:38:22 -08:00
.flake8 Remove miscellaneous nuphar configs (#13070) 2022-09-26 13:41:28 -07:00
.gitattributes Initial bootstrap commit. 2018-11-19 16:48:22 -08:00
.gitignore Ignore settings.json in git (#12988) 2022-09-19 12:05:43 -07:00
.gitmodules Improve dependency management (#13523) 2022-12-01 09:51:59 -08:00
build.amd64.1411.bat Initial bootstrap commit. 2018-11-19 16:48:22 -08:00
build.bat Initial bootstrap commit. 2018-11-19 16:48:22 -08:00
build.sh Add iOS test pipeline and a sample app. (#5298) 2020-09-29 13:53:11 -07:00
CITATION.cff Fix CITATION.cff and add automatic validation of your citation metadata (#10478) 2022-04-13 10:03:52 -07:00
CODEOWNERS Add cgmanifest file in codeowner list (#13042) 2022-09-22 18:58:01 -07:00
CONTRIBUTING.md minor improvements to CONTRIBUTING doc (#11080) 2022-04-12 15:22:34 -07:00
lgtm.yml Fix lgtm C++ error (#13613) 2022-11-10 10:06:22 -08:00
LICENSE Remove year from license (#6658) 2021-02-12 00:25:56 -08:00
NuGet.config Delete nuget extra configs (#6477) 2021-01-27 20:25:45 -08:00
ort.wprp Add Tracelogging for profiling (#1639) 2019-11-11 21:34:10 -08:00
ORT_icon_for_light_bg.png Update nuget icon (#10672) 2022-03-01 09:11:03 -08:00
packages.config [DML EP] Upgrade DML to 1.10.0 (#13796) 2022-11-30 21:32:14 -08:00
pyproject.toml Update pylint config to include valid short names (#13631) 2022-11-14 10:00:25 -08:00
README.md Update resource section in readme (#13724) 2022-11-28 09:42:31 -08:00
requirements-dev.txt Introduce parameterized as a dev dependency (#11364) 2022-04-26 17:24:39 -07:00
requirements-doc.txt Add auto doc gen for ORTModule API during CI build (#7046) 2021-03-22 10:20:33 -07:00
requirements-training.txt Remove protobuf pin from training requirements (#13695) 2022-11-22 12:27:18 -08:00
requirements.txt.in Add additional python requirements (#11522) 2022-05-20 16:16:18 -07:00
SECURITY.md Microsoft mandatory file (#11619) 2022-05-25 13:56:10 -07:00
setup.py Enable ORT in TorchDynamo (#13259) 2022-11-01 11:19:29 -07:00
ThirdPartyNotices.txt Delete CUB (#13534) 2022-11-02 13:06:22 -07:00
VERSION_NUMBER Bumping up version number to 1.14.0 on main branch (#13401) 2022-10-21 19:16:44 -04:00

ONNX Runtime is a cross-platform inference and training machine-learning accelerator.

ONNX Runtime inference can enable faster customer experiences and lower costs, supporting models from deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow/Keras as well as classical machine learning libraries such as scikit-learn, LightGBM, XGBoost, etc. ONNX Runtime is compatible with different hardware, drivers, and operating systems, and provides optimal performance by leveraging hardware accelerators where applicable alongside graph optimizations and transforms. Learn more →

ONNX Runtime training can accelerate the model training time on multi-node NVIDIA GPUs for transformer models with a one-line addition for existing PyTorch training scripts. Learn more →

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