Mellanox Ethernet Solutions Selected to Accelerate Baidu’s Machine Learning Platforms
January 10 2017 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Mellanox End-to-End Ethernet Solutions with
100Gb/s Switches and Adapters Key for World-Leading Machine
Learning Applications, Demonstrating Performance Improvements up to
200 Percent
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX), a leading supplier of
high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center
servers and storage systems, today announced that Spectrum™
Ethernet switches and ConnectX®-4 100Gb/s Ethernet adapters have
been selected by Baidu, the leading Chinese language Internet
search provider, for Baidu’s Machine Learning platforms. The need
for higher data speed and most efficient data movement placed
Spectrum and RDMA-enabled ConnectX-4 adapters as key components to
enable world leading machine learning platforms. With the Mellanox
solutions, Baidu was able to demonstrate 200 percent improvement in
machine learning training times, resulting in faster decision
making.
“We are pleased to continue working with Mellanox to enable the
most efficient platforms for our applications,” said Mr. Liu Ning,
system department deputy director at Baidu. “Mellanox Ethernet
solutions with RDMA allow us to fully leverage our Machine Learning
platform and work with various machine models while saving valuable
CPU cycles and associated computing costs.”
“Machine Learning has become a critical predictive and
computational tool for many businesses worldwide,” said Amir
Prescher, senior vice president business development, Mellanox
Technologies. “Working with Baidu, the premiere internet search
provider in China, has enabled Mellanox to showcase the advantages
and cost effectiveness of our Spectrum™ switches and ConnectX®-4
100Gb/s adapters solutions to enable the most efficient machine
learning platforms.”
In 2013, Baidu established the Institute of Deep Learning, IDL,
with the goal of better leveraging Machine Learning as it applies
to image recognition, voice recognition and search, and advertising
CTR forecast (i.e., Click Through Rate prediction, pCTR). To
support IDL networking requirements, the Baidu RDMA solution
guarantees businesses can transfer with no disruption or downtime.
Even if RDMA encounters problems, the network can automatically
switch over to TCP in order to guarantee continuous system
operation. Baidu RDMA application solutions and Mellanox RDMA
technology will continue to support Baidu’s IDL to drive future
innovation and breakthrough technology solutions.
Baidu Inc. is the leading Chinese language Internet search
provider. As a technology-based media company, Baidu aims to
provide the best and most equitable way for people to find what
they’re looking for. In addition to serving individual Internet
search users, Baidu provides an effective platform for businesses
to reach potential customers.
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About Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX) is a leading supplier of
end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and
services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions
increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput
and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and
unlocking system performance capability. Mellanox offers a choice
of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches, software and
silicon that accelerate application runtime and maximize business
results for a wide range of markets including high performance
computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage and
financial services. More information is available at:
www.mellanox.com.
Mellanox and ConnectX are registered trademarks of Mellanox
Technologies, Ltd. All other trademarks are property of their
respective owners.
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