Baidu Named Development Partner on Intel Nervana Neural Network Processor for Training
July 02 2019 - 10:40PM
Business Wire
What’s New: Today at the Baidu Create AI developer
conference in Beijing, Intel Corporate Vice President Naveen Rao
announced that Baidu* is collaborating with Intel on development of
the new Intel® Nervana™ Neural Network Processor for Training
(NNP-T). The collaboration involves the hardware and software
designs of the new custom accelerator with one purpose – training
deep learning models at lightning speed.
“The next few years will see an explosion in
the complexity of AI models and the need for massive deep learning
compute at scale. Intel and Baidu are focusing their decade-long
collaboration on building radical new hardware, co-designed with
enabling software, that will evolve with this new reality –
something we call ‘AI 2.0.’” –Naveen Rao, Intel corporate vice
president and general manager of the AI Products Group
Why It Matters: Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t a
single workload; it’s a pervasive capability that will enhance
every application, whether it’s running on a phone or in a massive
data center. Phones, data centers and everything in between have
different performance and power requirements, so one-size AI
hardware doesn’t fit all. Intel offers exceptional choice in AI
hardware with enabling software, so customers can run complex AI
applications where the data lives. The NNP-T is a new class of
efficient deep learning system hardware designed to accelerate
distributed training at scale. Close collaboration with Baidu helps
ensure Intel development stays in lock-step with the latest
customer demands on training hardware.
How Intel and Baidu Collaborate: Since 2016, Intel has
been optimizing Baidu’s PaddlePaddle* deep learning framework for
Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. Now, the companies give data
scientists more hardware choice by optimizing the NNP-T for
PaddlePaddle.
The impact of these AI solutions is enhanced with additional
Intel technologies. For example, Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent
Memory provides improved memory performance that allows Baidu to
deliver personalized mobile content to millions of users through
its Feed Stream* service and Baidu’s AI recommendation engines for
a more efficient customer experience.
Additionally, with data security critically important to users,
Intel and Baidu are working together on MesaTEE*, a memory-safe
function-as-a-service (FaaS) computing framework based on the Intel
Software Guard Extensions (SGX) technology.
More Context: Artificial Intelligence at Intel | Beyond
the CPU or GPU: Why Enterprise-Scale Artificial Intelligence
Requires a More Holistic Approach (Naveen Rao Editorial) | Intel AI
at Baidu Create: AI Camera, FPGA-based Acceleration and Xeon
Scalable Optimizations for Deep Learning
About Intel
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shaping the data-centric future with computing and communications
technology that is the foundation of the world’s innovations. The
company’s engineering expertise is helping address the world’s
greatest challenges as well as helping secure, power and connect
billions of devices and the infrastructure of the smart, connected
world – from the cloud to the network to the edge and everything in
between. Find more information about Intel at newsroom.intel.com
and intel.com.
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trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S.
and/or other countries. *Other names and brands may be claimed as
the property of others.
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