2017 PRC SPRING AI TECHNICAL WORKSHOP

2017 PRC Spring AI Technical Workshop
会议时间：2017年3月28日（8:30-16:45）
签到时间：8:30-9:30
会议酒店：北京金隅喜来登酒店3F宴会厅
酒店地址：北京市东城区北三环东路36号

INTER AI HARDWARE PLATFORM

1. inter nervana portfolio
   inter xeon processors
   inter xeon phi processors
   inter xeon processors + lake crest
   inter xeon processors + fpga

2. roadmap
   crest family (nervana)
   alter fpga
   inter xeon phi processors
   nervana processor
   inter xeon processor sp 25

   up to 400X caffe performance on intel

INTER AI SOFTWARE STACKS

1. github intel/caffe intel/theano

2. Nervana Solutions
   customer Neon Solutions
   Customer Models Neon Models
   Customer Algorithms Neon Deep Leaning Functions
   Hardware Agnostic Inter Nervana Graph Compiler
   Hardware efficient Transformers

3. inter nervana al academy
   http://software.inter.com/ai
   frameworks,tools and libraries
   BIGDL : A distributed DL library form Apache Spark
   DAAL : open source library
   inter python distribution powered by anaconda

总结

1. 硬件： FPGA 相同计算性能时和gpu相比，功耗低，成本低，功耗比约1:3(ppt上给的数椐fpga130w,gpu350w)。结合inter xeon phi 相关处理器使用，此处理器增加了许多能提高深度学习相关计算的新指令集。
2. 软件：intel 对caffe https://github.com/intel/caffe 和 tensorflow针对自己的芯片架构做了修改优化。 intel 4亿美金 收购的 初创深度学习公司Nervana 开源的ngraph https://github.com/NervanaSystems/ngraph