NPU off-loading

[yukijoou]

Describe the feature you'd like to request

I'm running Nextcloud on a Quartz64 A, which has an NPU on its SOC. Could there be a way to run some of the face recognition algorithms on it?

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like a toggle/option in the admin control panel to switch to using the NPU for face recognition, to free up the CPU, and potentially to make it faster

Describe alternatives you've considered

Right now, everything runs on the CPU, which works, but isn't the best use of resources IMO. Maybe more GPU support (e.g. Mali GPUs commonly found on ARM chips) should be favoured as an alternative to this that would be more useful to more people!

[github-actions]

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[sgofferj]

I'm planning migration from my old X86_64 server to a FriendlyElec NAS platform which is aarch64 (Rockchip3588) with a Rockchip NPU.
I believe supporting common ARM SoC NPUs would be very beneficial.