New Cray Artificial Intelligence Offerings Designed to Accelerate Customers’ AI From Pilot to Production
March 28 2018 - 3:01AM
Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced
it is adding new options to its line of CS-Storm™ GPU-accelerated
servers as well as improved fast-start AI configurations, making it
easier for organizations implementing AI to get started on their
journey with AI proof-of-concept projects and pilot-to-production
use.
Cray is enhancing its CS-Storm series GPU-accelerated systems
with the addition of a new four-GPU version — the CS-Storm 500NX
4-GPU server, a 1U server with two Intel® Xeon® CPUs and four
NVIDIA® Volta GPUs, designed for customers whose AI models and HPC
applications require lower GPU-to-CPU ratios for optimal
performance. Including support for NVIDIA Volta GPUs, the new
system is well suited for applications ranging from deep learning
neural network training and inference to high-performance
computing.
Implementing machine and deep learning in many organizations is
a journey — from investigation to proof of concept to production
applications — that data science and IT teams undertake. Different
AI use cases require unique combinations of machine intelligence
tools, model designs and compute infrastructure. However, no single
system can address the entire spectrum of uses and models. Factors
like I/O throughput, GPU-to-CPU ratio and GPU memory can have a
direct impact on performance, and, ultimately, the success of the
AI application.
“As companies approach AI projects, choices in system size and
configuration play a crucial role,” said Fred Kohout, Cray’s senior
vice president of products and chief marketing officer. “Our
customers look to Cray Accel AI offerings to leverage our
supercomputing expertise, technologies and best practices. Whether
an organization wants a starter system for model development and
testing, or a complete system for data preparation, model
development, training, validation and inference, Cray Accel AI
configurations provide customers a complete supercomputer
system.”
“We are seeing a wide range of customer use cases for GPU
accelerated computing but with different configuration
requirements, even within a category like deep learning neural
network training,” Kohout said. “Adding a smaller form factor
allows our customers to choose the right node configuration for
their application needs.”
About the Cray CS-Storm GPU Accelerated
Supercomputer
Cray CS-Storm series GPU-accelerated supercomputers with NVIDIA
Volta 32 GB GPUs are available in three configurations to address a
variety of datacenter needs. For applications like distributed deep
learning training where multiple GPUs are used and GPU-to-GPU
communication performance is paramount, the CS-Storm 500NX 4-GPU
and 8-GPU nodes include support for NVIDIA® NVLink™ SXM2 GPUs. For
applications where independent parallel GPU processing is required,
the Cray CS-Storm 500GT system supports up to 10 NVIDIA® Tesla®
PCIe V100 GPUs or FPGAs for HPC applications. All CS-Storm systems
now include support for 32 GB V100 GPUs, making larger and deeper
neural network models easier to use. The new 4-GPU CS-Storm system
will be available in April of 2018.
About the Cray Accel AI Fast Start
Offerings
Cray Accel AI fast-start offerings are available in three
configurations: a stand-alone starter system for initial AI
exploration, a cluster starter kit — designed for integration into
existing datacenter cluster environments — for initial
proof-of-concept (PoC) applications, and a complete,
production-level Cray cluster supercomputer for training and
inference. With the addition of the CS-Storm 500NX 4-GPU node, the
updated Cray Accel AI cluster starter kit makes it easier for
organizations to deploy a PoC into existing datacenter cluster
infrastructure. All Cray Accel AI configurations come with a
complete AI software environment from Bright Computing that
includes the most popular AI frameworks and tools. Cray Accel AI
fast start offerings make it easy for organizations just getting
started with machine and deep learning to quickly move from pilot
to production.
For more information on artificial intelligence at Cray, please
visit the Cray website at
www.cray.com/solutions/artificial-intelligence.
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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