Cray and NERSC Partnership to Drive Advanced AI Development at Scale
December 06 2017 - 4:05PM
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
the Company has joined the Big Data Center (BDC) at the Department
of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
(NERSC). The collaboration between the two organizations is
representative of Cray’s commitment to leverage its supercomputing
expertise, technologies, and best practices to advance the adoption
of Artificial Intelligence (AI), deep learning, and data-intensive
computing.
The BDC at NERSC was established with a goal of addressing the
Department of Energy’s leading data-intensive science problems,
harnessing the performance and scale of the Cray® XC40™ “Cori”
supercomputer at NERSC. The collaboration is focused on three
fundamental areas that are key to unlocking the capabilities
required for the most challenging data-intensive workflows:
- Advancing the state-of-the-art in scalable, deep learning
training algorithms, which is critical to the ability to train
models as quickly as possible in an environment of ever-increasing
data sizes and complexity;
- Developing a framework for automated hyper-parameter tuning,
which provides optimized training of deep learning models and
maximizes a model’s predictive accuracy;
- Exploring the use of deep learning techniques and applications
against a diverse set of important scientific use cases, such as
genomics and climate change, which broadens the range of scientific
disciplines where advanced AI can have an impact.
“We are really excited to have Cray join the Big Data Center,”
said Prabhat, Director of the Big Data Center, and Group Lead for
Data and Analytics Services at NERSC. “Cray’s deep expertise in
systems, software, and scaling is critical in working towards the
BDC mission of enabling capability applications for data-intensive
science on Cori. Cray and NERSC, working together with Intel and
our IPCC academic partners, are well positioned to tackle
performance and scaling challenges of Deep Learning.”
“Deep learning is increasingly dependent on high performance
computing, and as the leader in supercomputing, Cray is focused on
collaborating with the innovators in AI to address present and
future challenges for our customers,” said Per Nyberg, Cray’s
Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence and Analytics. “Joining
the Big Data Center at NERSC is an important step forward in
fostering the advancement of deep learning for science and
enterprise, and is another example of our continued R&D
investments in AI.”
About the Big Data Center at NERSCThe Big Data
Center is a collaboration between the Department of Energy’s
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC),
Intel, and five Intel Parallel Computing Centers (IPCCs). The five
IPCCs that are part of the Big Data Center program include the
University of California-Berkeley, the University of
California-Davis, New York University (NYU), Oxford University, and
the University of Liverpool. The Big Data Center program was
established in August 2017.
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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