Category: AI Conferences

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, provide “how to” hands-on guidance in our Inference implementation workshop, and present fresh re-thinking on training CNNs.

Here’s how you can participate with the Habana team to benefit from our latest developments in the practical, real-world implementation of Inference and Training AI systems and applications.

ATTEND AND LEARN

EXPO: HABANA WORKSHOP – Sunday, December 8, 2 – 6pm

What: Hands-on Workshop: Implementing High-Performance AI Workloads with Habana AI Processors

Where: Rooms West 208 and 209, Vancouver Convention Centre

In this workshop, Leon Goldgeisser will provide details on how to implement an inference system with the Habana Goya Inference Processor. He’ll share foundations of the processor’s hardware and software and demonstrate how to use Goya to solve the most common and computationally extensive inference tasks.

An additional real world implementation feature of the workshop will be a talk by Whitney Zhao, Hardware Engineer of Facebook, who will discuss industry advances in AI hardware standardization to address the explosion of new types of hardware accelerators for Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and High-Performance Computing.

See the workshop abstract here. We hope you’ll join us at our EXPO workshop that bridges academia and industry application.

COME BY BOOTH 216 AND SEE GAUDI TRAINING AND GOYA INFERENCE IN ACTION

DEMONSTRATION & DISPLAY: Habana Booth – Sunday, December 8 – Wednesday, December 11, 9 – 5pm

What: Habana Training and Inference Solutions Demonstrated Live

Where: Booth 216, Convention Centre East

In our booth you will be able to see Goya Inference and Gaudi Training hardware and and real-time performance demonstrations of both sets of working AI solutions.

Come by booth 216 to meet the Habana team and see the live demos or contact our team at [email protected] for a private meeting.

ATTEND AND HEAR…

POSTER PRESENTATION: Saturday, December 14, noon to 2pm at the “Science Meets Engineering of Deep Learning” Workshop

What: Poster presentation – MIX & MATCH: TRAINING CONVNETS WITH MIXED IMAGE SIZES FOR IMPROVED ACCURACY, SPEED AND SCALE RESILIENCY

Where: Rooms 121 & 122, Convention Centre West

The authors will share yet-to-be explored trade-offs in batch and spatial input size used to train modern convolutional networks. We will also introduce novel methods to exploit these trade-offs, improving both training and inference time, as well as accuracy of convolutional models.

Here is the paper authored by Elad Hoffer, Berry Weinstein and Itay Hubara of Habana Labs Research; Tal Ben-Nun and Torsten Hoefler, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich University; and Daniel Soudry, Department of Electrical Engineering Technion, Haifa, Israel.

For more information on the poster presentations, please see details here.  

THANKS AND…

Thanks for your interest in Habana Labs at NeurIPS, and our inference and training product lines, Goya and Gaudi. If you have any questions or wish to arrange for a private meeting during the NeurIPS conference, please contact: Eitan Medina, Chief Business Officer: [email protected]

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 AI Training Systems with the GAUDI Processor,” in which he will present GAUDI’s one-of-a-kind architecture and features, purpose-designed for scaling of AI Training systems.

If you’re a member of the media and wish to conduct a one-on-one briefing with Eitan on the company and our products, please feel free to contact us at [email protected] to get on his schedule.

If you’ve not yet made your plans for the conference, please check out the agenda and registration here https://linleygroup.com/events/event.php?num=47

We look forward to seeing you at Linley’s conference.

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 demonstration of industry-leading inference performance.

It’s been a landmark year for Habana. GOYA has been shipping since Q4 last year and is the first back end for Facebook’s GLOW compiler and runtime project. We also fulfilled our promise—to launch the GAUDI AI Training processor during Q2 of 2019 and are pleased GAUDI has delivered two industry firsts: record-breaking performance in small batches as well as at large scale, and the industry’s only on-chip integration of RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCEv2), an innovation we expect to be transformative for AI systems scale-out and scale-up.

So, please come to check out our live demos of both GOYA and GAUDI in our booth. And, join us for the deep-dive workshop and panel that we’re sponsoring.

If you’re not yet registered for the Summit, be sure to use the Habana10 code to get a discount of 10% off the price. See details.

DAY 1 LUNCHTIME WORKSHOP: 1:45pm
A Standards-Based Approach to Scaling AI Datacenter Capacity and Performance; a by invitation session on “how to” efficiently scale AI datacenter capacity and performance. Please let the event organizer know if you’re interested in attending this workshop.
Presenter: Eitan Medina, Habana Labs Chief Business Officer

DAY 1 PANEL: 5:10pm
Developments and Impacts of Emerging Industry Standards on the AI Datacenter; immediately precedes the Day 1 closing keynote, followed by cocktail reception.
Panelists: Samar Dalal, Senior Manager Architecture & Design Uber; Cliff Young, Software Engineer Google Brain; Lingjie Xu, Director Applied AI Architecture Alibaba; Whitney Zhao, AI Hardware System Architect Facebook; Eitan Medina, Chief Business Officer, Habana Labs

When: June 18 – 21
Where: 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 ground up to address the specific demands of AI datacenter and cloud operations, offer record-breaking performance.

We introduced attendees to the advantages of Integrated On-chip RoCE

In addition to our focus on performance, Habana introduced conference attendees to GAUDI’s industry-only integration of on-chip Ethernet (RDMA over Converged Ethernet). Customers learned how integrated Ethernet will bring a radically new level of productivity and flexibility to scale up and scale out AI systems of all sizes—to address the networking needs of both data parallel and model parallel systems. GAUDI supports virtually unlimited scalability in speeds and port-count with Ethernet technology that’s already deployed and familiar in data centers and cloud operations.

Habana Keynote
Increasing AI productivity and efficiency with purpose-built AI Processors, delivered by Eitan Medina. Watch this keynote.

Habana Deep-dive Session
A Fresh Approach to Building High-Performance AI Systems, conducted by Eitan Medina. Watch the video.