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. …
Baidu
Cloud
Vertically Unchallenged
Components make compute and storage servers, and servers with application plane, control plane, and data plane software running atop them or alongside them make systems, and workflows across systems make platforms. …
Code
China’s Hyperscalers Strive to Keep Pace in Open Source
We have a good sense of what projects U.S. companies open source but when it comes to Chinese webscale companies, most notably the big three—Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent—that ecosystem is less public and not often discussed. …
AI
One Deep Learning Benchmark to Rule Them All
Over the last few years we have detailed the explosion in new machine learning systems with the influx of novel architectures from deep learning chip startups to efforts from vendors and hyperscalers alike. …
AI
China’s Global Cloud and AI Ambitions Keep Extending
Gone are the days of early warehouse scale computing pioneers that were based in the U.S.. …
Compute
Two Hyperscalers Down For AMD’s Epyc, Six To Go
You can’t call them the Super 8 because the discount hotel chain already has that name. …
AI
Deep Voice 3: Ten Million Queries on a Single GPU Server
Although much of the attention around deep learning for voice has focused on speech recognition, developments in artificial speech synthesis (text to speech) based on neural network approaches have been just as swift. …
AI
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.) …
AI
A Deep Learning Performance Lens for Low Precision Inference
Few companies have provided better insight into how they think about new hardware for large-scale deep learning than Chinese search giant, Baidu. …