In the evolving world of AI and deep learning, the latest workloads demand continually better hardware performance without sacrificing efficiency, and the Intel Gaudi 3 processors exemplify the company's commitment to high-performance AI and machine learning. As part of Intel's Habana Labs AI accelerator lineup, Gaudi processors are specifically designed for deep learning training and inference generation, which are essential for modern applications. With significant improvements in performance and efficiency over previous generations and industry competitors, more customers are increasingly opting for Intel Gaudi AI accelerators over compute platforms from other vendors.
Here are some key reasons why:
1. Specialization for AI Workloads
Gaudi accelerators are purpose-built for AI workloads and intense learning training, which allows them to outperform traditional CPUs and even general-purpose GPUs in many AI tasks. Gaudi processors are optimized to support various popular AI applications, including:
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Large Language Models,
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Multi-modal models
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Enterprise Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
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Diffusion models (for images, i.e. with Stable Diffusion)
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Standard object recognition and classification
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Voice dubbing
2. Performance Improvement
Gaudi 3 builds on the architecture of its predecessors (Gaudi and Gaudi 2) and brings enhanced performance in terms of AI model training, power efficiency, and scalability. They're designed to deliver higher throughput and lower latency for large-scale AI workloads, critical for training complex models like transformers used in natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, and recommendation systems.
Some key performance improvements over Intel Gaudi 2 accelerators include:
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2x AI Compute (FP8)
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4x AI Compute (FP16)
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2.6x Faster matrix math - (1.8 PetaFLOPS matrix processing at BF16 and FP8)
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2x Network bandwidth - (24 200 GbE RoCE v2 NICs)
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1.5x Faster HBM bandwidth
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1.33x Larger HBM capacity
3. Cost-Effectiveness
One of the goals of the Gaudi architecture including Gaudi 3, is to provide a cost-effective alternative to GPU-based AI accelerators of other vendors. With the introduction of Gaudi 3, Intel aims to reduce the financial barrier for enterprises to deploy AI at scale by offering competitive performance at a lower cost per training run. For example, Guadi 3 accelerators have demonstrated up to 2x performance per dollar improvements versus popular GPU-based systems.
4. Integration with Intel's AI Ecosystem
Gaudi 3 accelerators are integrated into Intel's broader AI and data center strategy, complementing other Intel technologies such as Xeon processors and FPGAs. Therefore, they're a crucial part of Intel's push to capture more of the growing AI and machine learning market.
5. Scalability
Intel designed their Gaudi 3 AI accelerators to scale efficiently in large clusters to promote use in hyperscale data centers and AI labs that must handle massive AI workloads. In addition, its architecture supports large-scale model training with high data throughput and parallelism. Supporting growth, Gaudi 3 is built on two compute dies, which, combined, offer 8 MME engines, 64 TPC engines, and 24 x 200 Gbps RDMA NIC ports. As a result, Gaudi 3 accelerators can be deployed anywhere from single systems to large clusters.
6. Open Architecture
Whereas other manufacturers attempt to lock their customers in with proprietary technology, Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerators are built on open architecture standards to provide operators the most flexibility. In their April announcement, Intel unveiled plans to develop an open platform for enterprise-level AI in partnership with Red Hat, SAP, and VMware. In addition, they announced a suite of Ethernet solutions optimized for AI, like AI connectivity chiplets and the AI NIC (network interface card).
7. Developer Tools
Intel Tiber Developer Cloud users can easily access the latest technology and enjoy a suite of tools to enable faster AI deployment at scale.
Some of Tiber's many advantages include:
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Toolkits and Libraries - such as the Intel AI Tools and HPC Toolkits, and Intel Quantum SDK
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AI Foundation Models - like Technology Innovation Institute (TII) Falcon LLM, MosaicML MPT, and HuggingFace Bloom
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AI Frameworks and Tooling - such as Intel Optimization for PyTorch, Intel Distribution of OpenVINO Toolkit, and Intel Optimization for TensorFlow
For a comprehensive list of all the Intel Tiber Developer Cloud offers, visit its page at Intel.com.
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