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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 now supports PyTorch 1.10.0, PyTorch Lightning 1.5.0, TensorFlow 2.7.0, and TensorFlow 2.6.2. We’ve added Containerd support to habanalabs-container-runtime, support for debugging and profiling … Read more
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 science development from research to production and offers unrivaled flexibility to run on-premise, cloud or both. Habana and cnvrg.io have partnered to bring … Read more
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 of Habana Gaudi AI processor technology delivered in the Supermicro X12 AI Server with DDN’s AI400X2 storage system optimized for AI. This new … Read more
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, and industry decided on a set of benchmarks and a defined set of strict rules that ensure fair comparisons among all vendors. As … Read more
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 recognition in videos, speech recognition, natural language processing, recommendation systems, and more. The Habana® Gaudi® AI processor is designed to maximize training throughput … Read more
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 instance by AWS that is not based on GPUs. The primary motivation to create this new training instance class was presented by Andy … Read more
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 Lightning. You can find an example of Unet2D with PyTorch Lightning in our model references repository on Habana GitHub. We now support PyTorch … Read more
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. We further simplified the code needed for initializing TensorFlow on Gaudi. Extended support for TensorFlow operators will provide even better acceleration. This release … Read more
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 of Habana Gaudi® AI training solutions to work—whether you’re using Gaudi in the cloud, in your own data center or both. Today we’re … Read more
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 40% better price performance than current GPU-based EC2 instances for machine learning workloads. Availability of Gaudi-based EC2 Instances is targeted to the first … Read more
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 Systems Conference, aka NeurIPS, which takes place from December 8 to 14 in Vancouver. There we’ll demonstrate our AI Training and Inference technologies, … Read more
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. Helping readers sort out the different categories and performance metrics, MLPerf has provided an excellent paper which can be accessed here . MLPerf splits … Read more
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 AI, it’s incredibly important to think of end-user deployment systems. Questions end users encounter today are: how to ensure that the current design … Read more
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 Training Processors in operation—with both demonstrating industry-leading, benchmarked performance. In addition, Eitan Medina will provide a talk at 2pm on October 23, “Scaling … Read more
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 company and our Goya Inference Processor. This year at the Summit marked more progress for the company and its products—inference AND training. This … Read more
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 comment on Eitan Medina’s talk on Habana’s approach to scaling AI Training systems and update on our Goya Inference processor’s leading performance on … Read more
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 approach was quickly adopted by many as it offered improved accuracy, as well as further contributed to the trend of transfer-learning with a … Read more
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 surprise attendees with not only the emergence of our company, but also the launch of our GOYA AI Inference Processor with a live … Read more
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, from providing new hardware components to accelerate training and inference workloads to building new software platforms that leverage AI to improve business processes. … Read more
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 linear progression–from a single card up to more than a thousand processors, a critically important capability that enables optimized system performance and total … Read more
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 custom-designed and optimized for AI inference. On the ResNet-50 benchmark, GOYA is outpacing performance of its closest rival, the T4 processor, by a … Read more
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 on the latest advances in semiconductor chip design and implementation. On Monday, August 19 at 6:15 at the conference, Eitan Medina, Habana’s CBO, … Read more
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 AI Training processor and GOYA AI Inference processor, shipping since 2018, at the O’Reilly AI Conference in Beijing. Both processors, built from the … Read more
