Cray launches AI products to accelerate deep learning - AI News

Supercomputer manufacturer Cray has introduced a new set of four artificial intelligence (AI) products to accelerate the adoption of deep learning in science and enterprise. The new products include Cray Accel AI Lab, which aims to advance the development of deep learning technologies and workflows, and Cray Accel AI Offerings, featured with NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU accelerators. The new Cray Urika-XC software suite, which brings graph analytics, deep learning, and big data analytics tools the Cray XC supercomputers, will now include the TensorFlow computational framework and enhancements to the Cray software environment that are particularly designed to accelerate machine learning frameworks. Also included is a collaboration agreement with Intel. The Cray-Intel team up will deliver a productised software stack for deep learning at scale on Cray systems and leverage Intel's AI technologies to advance the state-of-the-art in distributed deep learning and machine learning.