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Habana this week at re:Invent ‘22

The Habana® team is excited to be at re:Invent 2022, November 28 – December 1. We’re proud that Amazon EC2 DL1 instances featuring Habana Labs Gaudi deep learning accelerators are providing an […]

Habana this week at Supercomputing ‘22

The Habana® team is excited to be in Dallas at SuperComputing 2022. We look forward to sharing the latest performance advances for Gaudi®2, expanded software support and partner solutions from Supermicro, Inspur […]

Habana Gaudi2 makes another performance leap on MLPerf benchmark

Today MLCommons® published industry results for their AI training v2.1 benchmark that contained an impressive number of submissions, with over 100 results from a wide array of industry suppliers, with roughly 90% […]

Habana Deep Learning Solutions Support OCP OAM Specification

Gaudi and Gaudi2-based Servers Deliver Flexibility with Industry-standard Interoperability State-of-the-art deep learning applications require multiple processors in systems with multiple inter-card links running at high speed and with ample bandwidth. To provide […]

Memory-Efficient Training on Habana® Gaudi® with DeepSpeed

One of the key challenges in Large Language Model (LLM) training is reducing the memory requirements needed for training without sacrificing compute/communication efficiency and model accuracy. DeepSpeed [2] is a popular deep learning software […]

Habana Collaborates with Red Hat to Make AI/Deep Learning More Accessible to Enterprise Customers through OpenShift Data Science

AI is transforming enterprises with valuable business insights, increased operational efficiencies and enhanced user experiences with innovative applications that can fuel growth. However, enterprise customers are challenged by the daily demands of […]

Habana at Intel Innovation 2022: Day One

The Habana team is excited to share with you our deep learning technologies and invite you to see our demos featured at the Intel Innovation 2022 conference happening today and tomorrow at […]

Art Generation with PyTorch V-diffusion and Habana Gaudi

In this post, we will learn how to run PyTorch V-diffusion inference on Habana Gaudi processor, expressly designed for the purpose of efficiently accelerating AI Deep Learning models. Art Generation with V-diffusion […]

Migrating TensorFlow EfficientNet to Habana Gaudi

In this post, we will learn how to migrate a TensorFlow EfficientNet model from running initially on a CPU to a Habana Gaudi Training processor, expressly designed for the purpose of efficiently […]

Release of SynapseAI® version 1.6.0

The Habana team is happy to announce the release of SynapseAI® version 1.6.0. In this release, we introduce preliminary inference capabilities on Gaudi. For further details, refer to the Inference on Gaudi guide. […]

Since Habana’s Last MLPerf submission…

Much has happened at Habana since our last MLPerf submission in November 2021. We launched Gaudi®2, our second-generation deep learning training processor, and Greco™, our second-generation inference processor. We expanded our software […]

The Habana^® Labs team is happy to announce the release of SynapseAI^® version 1.5.0.

SynapseAI 1.5 brings many improvements, both in usability and in Habana ecosystem support. For PyTorch we removed the need for weight permutation, as well as the need to explicitly call load_habana_module. See […]

Habana Gaudi2 at Intel Vision 22

The Habana team is excited to have launched our next-gen 7nm training and inference processors, Gaudi2 for training and Greco for inference, this morning on stage at Intel Vision 22. Sandra Rivera, […]

Habana Expands Gaudi® Platform Functionality with SynapseAI® version 1.4.1.

We are excited to announce the release of SynapseAI 1.4.1. This is the first release that enables SynapseAI training on Habana Gaudi®2 AI processors. With this release we have enabled TensorFlow Resnet50 […]

Train more, spend less with Habana Gaudi-based Amazon EC2 DL1 Instances

As demand for deep learning applications grows among enterprises and startups, so does the need for high-performance, yet cost-effective cloud solutions for training DL models. With the Amazon EC2 DL1 Instance, users […]

Habana Labs and Hugging Face Partner to Accelerate Transformer Model Training

Powered by deep learning, transformer models deliver state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of machine learning tasks, such as natural language processing, computer vision, speech, and more. However, training them at scale […]

Habana Expands Gaudi® Platform Functionality with SynapseAI® version 1.4.0.

The Habana(R) Labs team is pleased to augment software support for the Gaudi platform with the release of SynapseAI® version 1.4.0. In this release, we have made several version updates. We now support […]

Habana Labs and Grid.ai are making it easier to train on Gaudi with PyTorch Lightning

The Habana team is pleased to be collaborating with Grid.ai to make it easier and quicker for developers to train on Gaudi® processors with PyTorch Lightning without any code changes. Grid.ai and […]

Towards Data Science shares AI training tips on AWS with Habana Gaudi

Earlier this year, Machine Learning Algorithm Developer, Chaim Rand, evaluated the Amazon EC2 DL1 instance based on the Habana Gaudi processor and demonstrated some of its unique properties. This was a sequel […]

SynapseAI 1.3.0 Release

The Habana® Labs team is happy to announce the release of SynapseAI® version 1.3.0. In this release, we have made several version updates. We now support PyTorch 1.10.1 (previously 1.10.0), PyTorch Lightning […]

SynapseAI 1.2.0 Release

The Habana® Labs team is happy to announce the release of SynapseAI® version 1.2.0. In addition to many improvements and bug fixes, the new version includes the following new capabilities. SynapseAI software […]

Habana and cnvrg.io bring flexibility, ease of use and cost-efficiency for AI developers

Habana Gaudi’s compute efficiency and integration bring new levels of price-performance to both cloud and on-premise data-center customers. Cnvrg.io MetaCloud is transforming the way enterprises manage, scale and accelerate AI and data […]

Habana and DDN Feature Turnkey AI Training Solution at The AI Summit, New York

Join Us December 8 & 9 at DDN’s Booth #229, Javits Center At The AI Summit/New York, Habana, in collaboration with the DDN team, will feature our turnkey AI solution, the combination […]

MLPerf AI Training Benchmark:
Habana Gaudi Performance and Scale Results

The MLPerf community aims to design fair and useful benchmarks that provide “consistent measurements of accuracy, speed, and efficiency” for machine learning solutions. To that end AI leaders from academia, research labs, […]

Getting Started with Habana® Gaudi® for Deep Learning Training

A New Hardware and Software Stack for Deep Learning Introduction Demand for high-performance deep learning (DL) training is accelerating with the growing number of applications and services based on image and gesture […]

Habana Gaudi debuts in the Amazon EC2 cloud

The numbers behind “up to 40% better price performance” Today, AWS announced the availability of the Amazon EC2 DL1.24xlarge instances, accelerated by Habana Gaudi AI processors. This is the first AI training […]

SynapseAI 1.1.0 Release

We are happy to announce the release of SynapseAI version 1.1.0. In addition to many improvements and bug fixes, the new version includes the following new capabilities: We introduced support for PyTorch […]

SynapseAI 1.0.0 Release

We are happy to announce the release of SynapseAI version 1.0.0. In addition to many improvements and bug fixes, the new version includes the following. We added support for TensorFlow version 2.5.0. […]

Introducing the Habana Developer Site

At Habana, we’re laser-focused on providing our customers, data scientists, developers, researchers and IT and systems administrators with the software, tools and support you need to put the price-performance, usability and scalability […]

Habana Gaudi AI Processors to bring lower cost-to-train to Amazon EC2 customers

by Eitan Medina, Santa Clara, CA, United States Today, in the re:Invent CEO Keynote, Amazon Web Services announced EC2 instances that will leverage up to 8 Gaudi accelerators and deliver up to […]

AI & Research Meet Real-World Implementation with Habana at NeurIPS 2019

The Habana Labs team looks forward to meeting up with you—researchers, academics, recruitment prospects, and those who are bringing AI to life in the datacenter and cloud—at this year’s Neural Information Processing […]

Habana Reports MLPerf Inference Results for the Goya Processor in Available Category

Today the MLPerf organization announced performance results for Inference processors and systems for the first time. Habana’s Goya has been in production since December 2018 and is reported in the Available category. […]

Unlocking AI Scaling through Software and Hardware Interface Standardization

Here’s our recent Medium blog that addresses Habana’s strategy behind its use of software and hardware standards to improve data center performance and efficiency. In a field with fast-paced development such as […]

See Habana’s Inference and Training Processors in Action at the Linley Fall Conference

The Habana Labs team is excited to join The Linley Group at its upcoming fall conference, October 23 and 24 in Santa Clara. There we will show our GOYA Inference and GAUDI […]

Habana marks anniversary of coming out of stealth at this week’s AI Hardware Summit 2019

This week marked Habana’s second year of showing working hardware and demonstrating leading AI performance at the AI Hardware Summit. At last year’s summit, Habana stepped out of stealth to introduce the […]

Thank you Hot Chips 31!

The Habana team was thrilled with the turn-out of so many AI business leaders and academic gurus at this year’s Hot Chips. Thank you to those of you who attended and provided […]

Habana Labs Goya Delivers Inferencing on BERT

Goya outperforms T4 GPU on key NLP inference benchmark BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) is a language representation model based on the Transformer neural architecture, introduced by Google in 2018. This […]

See you at AI Hardware Summit 2019

Habana features GAUDI Training and GOYA Inference Processors at this year’s conference At Habana, we have fond memories of AI Hardware Summit 2018—it was where our company came out of stealth to […]

CRN names Habana Labs among Top 10 Coolest Machine Learning and AI Startups in 2019

Check out CRN’s assessment of the top 10 coolest AI startups. Here’s what they had to say about Habana. These startups are tackling AI and machine learning in a variety of ways, […]

Deep-Dive into Habana’s GAUDI AI Training Processor

With the launch of the GAUDI processor, Habana has brought to the world of AI computing two critically important sets of advantages. GAUDI delivers extraordinary AI training throughput that scales at near-perfectly […]

Can you see the GOYA vs. T4 performance difference?

While the Habana GOYA™ AI Inference processor is relatively new to AI processing, having been introduced only in September 2018, its performance is redefining what customers can expect from a processor that’s […]

August is cooler at Hot Chips

Join Habana Labs on Monday, August 19 at Hot Chips 2019: A Symposium on High Performance Chips. The Hot Chips conference, which is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Microprocessors, focuses […]

GAUDI and GOYA were a hit at the O’Reilly AI Conference in Beijing

When: June 18 – 21Where: Beijing International Hotel Convention Center, Booth #206 What: Unmatched AI Performance and Versatility with GAUDI and GOYA Habana Labs was pleased to demonstrate its newly debuted GAUDI […]

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