Data Loading# External Source Operator - basic usage Define the Data Source Defining the Pipeline Using the Pipeline Parallel External Source Accepted source Principle of Operation Example Pipeline and source Going Parallel Running the Pipeline with Spawned Python Workers Shuffling and sharding Parallel external source in containers Parallel External Source - Fork Steps to Start with Fork Example Pipeline and source Starting Python Workers Data Loading: LMDB Database Overview Caffe LMDB Format Caffe 2 LMDB Format Data loading: MXNet recordIO Overview Creating an Index Defining and Running the Pipeline Data Loading: TensorFlow TFRecord Overview Creating index Defining and Running the Pipeline Data Loading: Webdataset Overview Using readers.webdataset operator Creating an index Defining and running the pipeline COCO Reader Numpy Reader Overview Test data Usage Region-of-interest (ROI) API GPUDirect Storage Support