Mellanox Interconnect Solutions Scale Deep Learning Platforms to World-Leading Performance
June 20 2017 - 2:00AM
Business Wire
Mellanox RDMA Technology Accelerates Leading
Deep Learning Frameworks by 2X, Demonstrates Wide Adoption for
these Infrastructures
Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX), a leading supplier
of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data
center servers and storage systems, announced today that the
leading deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow™, Caffe2,
Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, and Baidu PaddlePaddle now leverage
Mellanox’s smart offloading capabilities to provide world-leading
performance and near-linear scaling across multiple AI servers.
Mellanox RDMA and In-Network Computing offloads and NVIDIA®
GPUDirect™ are key technologies enabling users to maximize their
application performance and system efficiencies.
Deep learning is used across industries and the research
community to help solve many big data problems such as natural
language processing, speech recognition, computer vision,
healthcare, life-sciences, financial services and more. Mellanox is
enabling these industries into a new era of performance and
scalability with the powerful data-centric offload architecture
that has been employed by the world’s most advanced machine
learning platforms.
TensorFlow is an open source software library originally
developed by researchers and engineers within Google’s Machine
Intelligence research group. With the inclusion of RDMA technology
in place of traditional TCP, TensorFlow data exchange performance
between nodes was accelerated by 2X, enabling faster image
processing.
Baidu’s PaddlePaddle (Parallel Distributed Deep Learning) is a
flexible and scalable deep learning platform. PaddlePaddle supports
a wide range of neural network architectures and optimization
algorithms, such that it is possible to leverage many CPUs and GPUs
to accelerate training. PaddlePaddle leverages RDMA to achieve high
throughput and performance, and takes advantage of the more
advanced acceleration capabilities of the combined NVIDIA and
Mellanox architectures to accelerate deep learning training time by
2X.
“Advanced deep neural networks depend upon the capabilities of
smart interconnect to scale to multiple nodes, and move data as
fast as possible, which speeds up algorithms and reduces training
time,” said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing at Mellanox
Technologies. “By leveraging Mellanox technology and solutions,
clusters of machines are now able to learn at a speed, accuracy and
scale that push the boundaries of the most demanding cognitive
computing applications.”
“Developers of deep learning applications can take advantage of
optimized frameworks and NVIDIA’s upcoming NCCL 2.0 library which
implements native support for InfiniBand verbs and automatically
selects GPUDirect RDMA for multi-node or NVIDIA NVLink when
available for intra-node communications,” said Duncan Poole,
Director of Platform Alliances at NVIDIA. “NVIDIA NVLink is
available in Pascal-based Tesla P100 systems, including the NVIDIA
DGX-1 AI supercomputer which has four Mellanox ConnectX®-4 100 Gb/s
adapters. This allows developers to focus on creating new
algorithms and software capabilities, rather than performance
tuning low-level communication collectives.”
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About Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ:MLNX) is a leading supplier
of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand intelligent interconnect
solutions and services for servers, storage, and hyper-converged
infrastructure. Mellanox’s intelligent interconnect solutions
increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput
and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and
unlocking system performance. Mellanox offers a choice of high
performance solutions: network and multicore processors, network
adapters, switches, cables, software and silicon, that accelerate
application runtime and maximize business results for a wide range
of markets including high performance computing, enterprise data
centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage, network security, telecom and
financial services. More information is available at
www.mellanox.com.
Note: Mellanox and ConnectX are registered trademarks of
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. All other trademarks are the property
of their respective owners.
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