Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
a comprehensive set of Artificial Intelligence (AI) products and
programs that will empower customers to learn, start, and scale
their deep learning initiatives.
As AI and deep learning continue to transform entire industries
and scientific disciplines, Cray is leveraging its supercomputing
expertise, technologies, and best practices to advance the adoption
of deep learning. Today, Cray is introducing:
- The new Cray Accel AI Lab to advance the development of deep
learning technologies and workflows;
- New Cray Accel AI offerings, featuring NVIDIA® Tesla® V100 GPU
accelerators, which provide a range of fast-start configurations
leveraging the Cray® CS-Storm™ accelerated cluster supercomputer
along with a robust deep learning environment;
- A new Cray Urika®-XC analytics software suite, including the
addition of the TensorFlow™ open-source machine intelligence
software library and support for Jupyter Notebooks;
- An AI collaboration agreement with Intel, leveraging Intel’s AI
technologies to advance the state-of-the-art in distributed deep
learning and machine learning.
“Cray is committed to working closely with our customers,
partners, and innovators in AI to drive the adoption of deep
learning in science and enterprise,” said Fred Kohout, Cray’s
senior vice president of products and chief marketing officer. “At
Cray, we are bringing together a powerful set of innovative
systems, software, deep learning architectures, and a hands-on lab
environment to give organizations a trusted partner to advance AI
workloads from pilot to production.”
Cray Accel AI LabCray is launching a deep
learning innovation center – the Cray Accel AI Lab – to serve as
the focal point for the application, incubation, and advancement of
supercomputing technologies in AI. The new lab will provide
access to Cray systems powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors
and NVIDIA Tesla GPU accelerators, and will bring together AI
experts from Cray’s engineering teams, its customers, and partners
to provide educational content and classes in topics ranging from
developer training to advanced optimization techniques of deep
learning frameworks. The Cray Accel AI Lab will accessible from
Cray offices worldwide, with classroom settings available in Cray’s
major office locations.
Cray Accel AI OfferingsCray is introducing new
Cray Accel AI offerings designed to make it easier for customers to
get started with AI. The new, fast-start configurations range from
a starter system ideal for AI exploration to a complete,
production-level Cray cluster supercomputer for training and
inference. Components include the Cray CS-Storm accelerated GPU
system featuring NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU accelerators powered by the
NVIDIA Volta™ GPU architecture, and a comprehensive deep learning
and analytics software environment from Bright Computing.
New Cray Urika-XC Analytics and AI Software
SuiteThe Cray Urika-XC software suite, which brings graph
analytics, deep learning, and robust big data analytics tools the
Company’s flagship line of Cray XC™ supercomputers, will now
include the TensorFlow computational framework and enhancements to
the Cray software environment that are specifically designed to
accelerate machine learning frameworks. The new Cray Programming
Environment (CPE) Machine Learning Library will deliver
unprecedented scaling by leveraging the Aries interconnect, and
will eliminate many of the mundane administrative tasks required
for distributed deep learning. With the enhanced performance, data
scientists will be able to train neural networks at scale on a Cray
XC supercomputer – leveraging either CPUs or GPUs – to more than
500 nodes.
Additionally, Cray is adding functionality for truly interactive
supercomputing for analytics and AI workloads with the addition of
Jupyter Notebook support, giving users the ability to create and
share executable code, graphical visualizations, monitoring
widgets, and narrative text.
“At the heart of artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep
learning, and supercomputing are some key commonalities,” said
Clint Wheelock, founder and managing director of Tractica. “At this
stage in the development of the market, the timing is optimal to
bring together the two areas of HPC and AI.”
AI Collaboration Agreement with IntelIntel and
Cray have signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of
a scalable software environment to enable science and enterprise to
take advantage of the tremendous promise of AI. The collaboration
will deliver a productized software stack for deep learning at
scale on Cray systems, along with targeted optimizations for
popular deep learning and machine learning tools, such as
TensorFlow and Intel’s BigDL distributed deep learning library
for Apache Spark.
“The convergence of Artificial Intelligence with traditional HPC
applications holds the promise of unlocking new scientific
approaches and new breakthrough discoveries,” said Trish Damkroger,
Vice President of Technical Computing at Intel. “This latest
collaboration with Cray, a global leader in supercomputing, will
further accelerate this convergence and help extend the reach of AI
tools.”
For more information on Cray’s solutions for machine learning
and deep learning, please visit the Cray website at
www.cray.com.
About Cray Inc.Global supercomputing leader
Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) provides innovative systems and solutions
enabling scientists and engineers in industry, academia and
government to meet existing and future simulation and analytics
challenges. Leveraging more than 40 years of experience in
developing and servicing the world’s most advanced supercomputers,
Cray offers a comprehensive portfolio of supercomputers and big
data storage and analytics solutions delivering unrivaled
performance, efficiency and scalability. Cray’s Adaptive
Supercomputing vision is focused on delivering innovative
next-generation products that integrate diverse processing
technologies into a unified architecture, allowing customers to
meet the market’s continued demand for realized performance. Go to
www.cray.com for more information.
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