SEATTLE — Oct. 10, 2022 — Amazon Web Services today announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Trn1 instances powered by AWS-designed Trainium chips. Trn1 instances are built for high-performance training of machine learning models in the cloud. AWS said the offering saves up to 50 percent cost-to-train savings over comparable […]
MLPerf: Latest Results Highlight ‘More Capable ML Training’
June 29, 2022 by
Open engineering consortium MLCommons has released new results from MLPerf Training v2.0, which measures how fast various platforms train machine learning models. The organizations said the latest MLPerf Training results “demonstrate broad industry participation and up to 1.8X greater performance ultimately paving the way for more capable intelligent systems….” As it has done with previous […]
Cerebras Claims Record for Largest AI Models Trained on a Single Device
June 22, 2022 by
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 22, 2022 — AI computing company Cerebras Systems today announced that a single Cerebras CS-2 system is able to train models with up to 20 billion parameters on – something not possible on any other single device, according to the company. By enabling a single CS-2 to train these models, Cerebras said […]
Azure Adopts AMD Instinct MI200 GPU for Large-Scale AI Training
May 26, 2022 by
SANTA CLARA, Calif. May 26, 2022 — Microsoft has announced the use of AMD Instinct MI200 GPU accelerators for large-scale AI training workloads. Microsoft also announced it is working with the PyTorch Core team and AMD data center software team to optimize the performance and developer experience for customers running PyTorch on Microsoft Azure. AMD […]
