Deduplicate the CPU and GPU versions of Forward and Backward methods #2577
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To avoid the complicated state management issue in #610, this PR doesn't use the global Caffe mode or layerwise device. Instead, the Caffe::Brew must always be specified explicitly while the original APIs call the Brew aware methods. The design is reflected in the AbsValLayer.