Baidu Research Announces New Open Source Deep Learning Benchmark - Baidu Research

Today at the O'Reilly AI Conference in New York, Baidu Research announced DeepBench, the first open source benchmarking tool for evaluating deep learning performance across different hardware platforms. The announcement was made during a presentation by Greg Diamos and Sharan Narang of Baidu Research's Silicon Valley AI Lab. "Deep learning developers and researchers want to train neural networks as fast as possible. Right now we are limited by computing performance," said Dr. Diamos. He added: "The first step in improving performance is to measure it, so we created DeepBench and are opening it up to the deep learning community. We believe that tracking performance on different hardware platforms will help processor designers better optimize their hardware for deep learning applications."