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.. …
Baidu
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.) and how they design and deploy infrastructure at scale. …
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. …
AI
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. …
AI
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. …
AI
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. …