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In recent years, driven by big data and artificial intelligence, heterogeneous computing has made great progress. Alibaba Cloud's heterogeneous computing has achieved fruitful results in both product form and application field.
In recent years, driven by big data and artificial intelligence, heterogeneous computing has developed by leaps and bounds. Alibaba Cloud's heterogeneous computing has achieved fruitful results in both product form and application field.
On the morning of March 29, at the Shenzhen Yunqi Conference, Alibaba Cloud senior product expert Pan Yue made an in-depth analysis of Alibaba Cloud heterogeneous computing in this era.
Pan Yue introduced at the scene that Alibaba Cloud's heterogeneous computing products provide a wealth of "multi-scenario-oriented heterogeneous computing acceleration platforms", including the GA1 instance (AMD S7150) specially designed for graphics and image rendering, in order to meet the needs of artificial intelligence training GN5 (P100) instances for inference needs, GN5i (P4) instances for AI inference and video transcoding applications, and GN6 (V100) instances for addressing higher computing power requirements in the fields of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. A variety of FPGA instances are used to serve services such as image transcoding, genetic computing, and database acceleration.
Among these platforms, GN6 instances are specially designed for deep learning training and high-performance computing applications. The Tesla V100 with the latest Nvidia Volta architecture is selected. Compared with the previous generation P100 products, GN6 instances provide up to 12 times the computing performance. , can help engineers and scientists to solve the problems that could not be dealt with before. Currently GN6 (V100) is in the public beta stage, so stay tuned for the upcoming launch.
In the entire definition of heterogeneous products, Alibaba Cloud has always adhered to a rigorous and professional attitude. When it comes to the selection of Pascal GPUs, I believe many people will choose the P40 because of the single-precision floating-point capability in the manual, because the P40 has 12TFlops. capacity, while the P100 has only 10.6TFlops. However, after the Alibaba Cloud R&D team has tested various scenarios and methods, in artificial intelligence applications, the performance of the P100 is 20% higher. The following are the test results of the two scenarios:
At the main forum of this Shenzhen Yunqi Conference, Alibaba Cloud has carried out in-depth cooperation with Nvidia in the construction of the GPU ecosystem, including the implementation and popularization of the previous Nvidia Deep Learning Research Institute DLI in Alibaba Cloud University, as well as the development of AI services for the artificial intelligence industry. New Feature Released - NGC Container Image:
NGC is a deep learning ecosystem developed by NVIDIA that helps developers access the deep learning software stack for free and build a development environment suitable for deep learning. Developers can obtain many NGC software on the Alibaba Cloud cloud market, including frameworks such as Caffe, Caffe2, CNTK, MXNet, TensorFlow, Theano, and Torch.
In the field of heterogeneous computing, FPGA has entered the public's field of vision from the field of dedicated computing, and has emerged in the general computing industry, which is a recent event. At present, Alibaba Cloud FPGA heterogeneous computing service (FPGA as a Service) supports mainstream FPGA platforms, achieves platformization, systematization, and unified interface, and provides computing power output under the premise of conforming to cloud security. Provide a complete development environment on the cloud, so that more FPGA engineers can easily develop on the cloud. We are gradually establishing and improving the FPGA ecosystem, combining the capabilities of our partners and Alibaba, so that FPGA's excellent computing capabilities can serve more customers. At present, Alibaba Cloud FPGA heterogeneous platform is used in image transcoding and compression, database acceleration, genetic computing and other fields.
Alibaba Cloud's elastic computing heterogeneous platform, on the premise of security and stability, continues to provide high-quality products and services to help enterprises achieve technological innovation, and make computing and artificial intelligence truly inclusive technology!
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