Stefan Mileschin

28X improvement in deep leering

It is easy to forget about the software behind the hardware that everyone gets excited about, but without drivers, OS, and general API support, there would not be any platform.

Raja Koduri the Chief Architect, and SVP of Intel architecture, graphics and software, has presented the software leadership part of Intel’s long term roadmap. It was interesting that the software leadership team including some senior staff who are with Intel for more than 25 years said that this is the first time that Intel chose to talk to investors about software. Raja called it what it was, a huge change.

Intel jumped 6X in Java runtime performance between JDK 8 and JDK 9 and compared it with a few generations of Moore's Law hardware performance in one software release. Persistent memory complete stack optimization compared to an SSD raw hardware at the base level and Intel hardware and software at the other end managed to increase the performance by 8.1x times.
Deep learning jump by 28x

Raja’s favorite example is the deep learning boost where Intel engineers managed to increase 28x times with hardware and software compared to a 1x based level with hardware only. This is a mind-blowing example of how things can get faster as long as the company understands and optimizes for the workload. Intel's software team accomplished this improvement in 12 to 18 months in a data center world from Skylake to top Cascade lake hardware, and the 28x boost would not be possible without great software support.

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