Sponsored Content SURFsara posted the best accuracy and an under 40 minute training time on some popular deep learning architectures and data sets to establish new single-model state-of-the-art results using only general-purpose CPU-based hardware, as opposed to special accelerators. Specifically SURFsara reports under 40 minutes to train the ResNet50 model on the ImageNet-1k … [Read more...]
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NVIDIA GTC’17 announcements make them a complete ‘soup to nuts’ solution for specialized deep-learning applications
Amid a stronger-than-expected quarter (NVDA revenue $1.94B, datacenters sales of $409M), Jensen Huang (CEO/cofounder) Nvidia provided a comprehensive set of announcements during his GTC'17 keynote to position Nvidia for growth in the datacenter, cloud, embedded computing, plus IoT with low power domain level hardware (not a processor). Pre-emptive Intel Skylake comparative … [Read more...]
Anaconda Machine Learning Platform comes to IBM Cognitive Systems plus the Open Power Machine Learning Workgroup Launches
IBM announced on April 17, 2017 that it will offer the Anaconda Open Data Science platform on IBM Cognitive Systems. "By adding Anaconda support, IBM continues to take an open, collaborative approach with like-minded tech companies pushing the limits of cognitive tech. Now Anaconda’s massive developer community have access to hardware that is tailor built to power the deep … [Read more...]
Accelerating Python and Deep Learning
Sponsored Content “For deep learning to have a meaningful impact and business value, the time to train a model must be reduced from weeks to hours,” observed Ananth Sankaranarayanan, Intel’s director of engineering, analytics and AI solutions. Demonstrating the performance benefits of Intel Xeon and Intel Xeon Phi hardware and new Intel Architecture (IA) optimized software … [Read more...]
IBM Linux Servers Designed to Accelerate Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning and Advanced Analytics
New IBM POWER8 Chip with NVIDIA NVLinkTM Enables Data Movement 5x Faster than Any Competing Platform Systems Deliver Average of 80% More Performance Per Dollar than Latest x86-Based Servers(1) Expanded Linux Server Lineup Leverages OpenPOWER Innovations ARMONK, NY, September 8, 2016 … IBM (NYSE: IBM) today revealed a series of new servers designed to help … [Read more...]
Code Modernization Speeds Python and Other Machine Learning Packages
Sponsored Content Recent benchmarks from respected sources such as Kyoto University and Colfax Research show Intel Scalable System Framework (Intel SSF) balanced technologies approach coupled with optimized software including Python, Theano, and Torch can provide a tremendous performance benefit for deep learning and more generally both machine learning and generic HPC … [Read more...]
NVIDIA – “[Intel] Should Get Their Facts Straight” on Machine Learning Benchmarks
NVIDIA responds to the machine learning benchmark results presented by Intel at ISC'16, "It’s great that Intel is now working on deep learning. This is the most important computing revolution with the era of AI upon us and deep learning is too big to ignore. But they should get their facts straight." (Source: NVIDIA) NVIDIA notes further that, "While we can correct each of … [Read more...]
How Intel® MPI Enables Scalable Distributed Machine Learning
Sponsored Content In this article we focus on Intel® MPI and how it supports scalable distributed machine learning both now and in the future. This is the fourth in a multi-part series on Faster Deep Learning with the Intel Scalable System Framework (Intel® SSF). The Intel® MPI library provides programmers a “drop-in” MPICH replacement library that can deliver the … [Read more...]
How Lustre and DAOS Enable Faster Deep Learning
Sponsored Content In this article we will focus on Lustre and DAOS and their implications for distributed machine learning. This is the third in a multi-part series on Faster Deep Learning with the Intel Scalable System Framework (Intel® SSF). Brent Gorda (General Manager, Intel HPC Storage) note, “Lustre currently runs on 9 out of 10 of the world’s largest supercomputers and … [Read more...]
Faster Deep Learning with the Intel® Scalable System Framework: Next Generation Processors
Sponsored Post This is the first in a multi-part series on machine-learning that examines the impact of Intel Scalable System Framework (Intel® SSF) technology on the valuable HPC field of deep-learning. In this article we will focus on Intel® Xeon® and Intel® Xeon Phi™ processors. Follow-on articles will discuss other Intel SSF components including networking and storage with … [Read more...]