TensorFlow* Optimizations for the Intel Xeon Scalable Processor - Intel AI

TensorFlow* is one of the leading deep learning and machine learning frameworks today. Earlier in 2017, Intel worked with Google to incorporate optimizations for Intel Xeon and Xeon Phi processor based platforms using Intel Math Kernel Libraries (Intel MKL). These optimizations resulted in orders of magnitude improvement in performance – up to 70x[1] higher performance for training and up to 85x[2] higher performance for inference. In this blog we provide a performance update for a number of deep learning models running on the Intel Xeon Scalable processor. The Intel Xeon Scalable processor provides up to 28 cores, which brings additional computing power to the table compared to the 22 cores of its predecessor.