FASTER RESTARTS data pipeline1 - Intel€¦ · Supermicro’s SuperServer hardware with Intel®...
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1 For more complete information about performance and benchmark results, visit https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/customer-spotlight/stories/preferred-networks-customer-story.html Preferred Networks Launches Next-Gen ‘MN-3’ Deep Learning Supercomputer Products and Solutions 2 nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors Intel® Optane™ persistent memory Industry Computer Software Organization Size 101-250 Country Japan Partners Supermicro Learn more Case Study Preferred Networks (PFN) develops artificial intelligence solutions for industrial and domestic robotics, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), manufacturing systems and other industries. Their latest High Performance Computing (HPC) system, MN-3, integrates a custom-designed deep learning accelerator. Traditional SSDs could not meet the I/O throughput requirements of the new architecture. PFN turned to Supermicro’s SuperServer hardware with 2 nd gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Intel® Optane™ persistent memory. This enabled a balanced node with fast access and high capacity for training data. PFN also developed code and a custom library to take advantage of the large capacity, low latency and byte-addressable features of Intel Optane PMem. 3.5X faster data throughput compared to the system with NVMe SSDs. 1
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1 For more complete information about performance and benchmark results, visit https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/customer-spotlight/stories/preferred-networks-customer-story.html
Preferred Networks Launches Next-Gen ‘MN-3’ Deep Learning Supercomputer
Products and Solutions2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processorsIntel® Optane™ persistent memory
IndustryComputer Software
Organization Size101-250
CountryJapan
PartnersSupermicro
Learn moreCase Study
Preferred Networks (PFN) develops artificial intelligence solutions for industrial anddomestic robotics, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), manufacturing systems andother industries. Their latest High Performance Computing (HPC) system, MN-3,
integrates a custom-designed deep learning accelerator. Traditional SSDs couldnot meet the I/O throughput requirements of the new architecture. PFN turned toSupermicro’s SuperServer hardware with 2nd gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors
and Intel® Optane™ persistent memory. This enabled a balanced node with fastaccess and high capacity for training data. PFN also developed code and a customlibrary to take advantage of the large capacity, low latency and byte-addressable
features of Intel Optane PMem.
3.5X faster data throughput compared to thesystem with NVMe SSDs.1
