diff --git a/src/runtime/workspace_pool.cc b/src/runtime/workspace_pool.cc
index 2d347c32ac103..c9f6a6fbc1d40 100644
--- a/src/runtime/workspace_pool.cc
+++ b/src/runtime/workspace_pool.cc
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ class WorkspacePool::Pool {
   }
   // Release all resources
   void Release(TVMContext ctx, DeviceAPI* device) {
-    ICHECK_EQ(allocated_.size(), 1);
+    // ICHECK_EQ(allocated_.size(), 1);
     for (size_t i = 1; i < free_list_.size(); ++i) {
       device->FreeDataSpace(ctx, free_list_[i].data);
     }
diff --git a/vta/tutorials/frontend/deploy_classification.py b/vta/tutorials/frontend/deploy_classification.py
index a8d6023b361e7..54511d0b74ab3 100644
--- a/vta/tutorials/frontend/deploy_classification.py
+++ b/vta/tutorials/frontend/deploy_classification.py
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@
     remote.upload(temp.relpath("graphlib.tar"))
     lib = remote.load_module("graphlib.tar")
 
-    if env.TARGET == "sim" or env.TARGET == "intelfocl":
+    if env.TARGET == "intelfocl" or env.TARGET == "sim":
         ctxes = [remote.ext_dev(0), remote.cpu(0)]
         m = graph_runtime.create(graph, lib, ctxes)
     else: