AI
A Look at Baidu’s Industrial-Scale GPU Training Architecture
Like its U.S. counterpart, Google, Baidu has made significant investments to build robust, large-scale systems to support global advertising programs. …
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Baidu Sheds Precision Without Paying Deep Learning Accuracy Cost
One of the reasons we have written so much about Chinese search and social web giant, Baidu, in the last few years is because they have openly described both the hardware and software steps to making deep learning efficient and high performance at scale. …
AI
An Early Look at Baidu’s Custom AI and Analytics Processor
In the U.S. it is easy to focus on our native hyperscale companies (Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc.) …
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Baidu Targets Deep Learning Scalability Challenges
When it comes to solving deep learning cluster and software stack problems at scale, few companies are riding the bleeding edge like Chinese search giant, Baidu. …
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Baidu’s New Yardstick for Deep Learning Hardware Makers
When it comes to deep learning innovation on the hardware front, few other research centers have been as forthcoming with their results as Baidu. …
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Baidu Takes FPGA Approach to Accelerating SQL at Scale
While much of the work at Baidu we have focused on this year has centered on the Chinese search giant’s deep learning initiatives, many other critical, albeit less bleeding edge applications present true big data challenges. …
Compute
Baidu Eyes Deep Learning Strategy in Wake of New GPU Options
This month Nvidia bolstered its GPU strategy to stretch further into deep learning, high performance computing, and other markets, and while there are new options to consider, particularly for the machine learning set, it is useful to understand what these new arrays of chips and capabilities mean for users at scale. …
HPC
Baidu’s Chief Scientist on Intersection of Supercomputing, Machine Learning
“AI is transforming the entire world of technology. Much of this progress is due to the ability of learning algorithms to spot patterns in larger and larger amounts of data. …
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Baidu Looks to Next Generation Deep Learning Accelerators
If the last year of stories here from research labs at the forefront of deep learning hasn’t made it clear, the accelerator of choice for training the models that will feed the next generation of speech and image recognition (not to mention a wealth of other application areas) is certainly GPUs. …
Compute
Inside the GPU Clusters that Power Baidu’s Neural Networks
While many consumers in the U.S. might not have heard much about Baidu, when it comes to engineers and computer scientists, the Chinese company is on par with Google, Facebook, and their ilk when it comes to massively scaled distributed computing. …