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1 Source: http://www.netapp.com/us/media/wp-7169.pdf
2 Source: http://www.zdnet.com/news/unstructured-data-challenge-or-asset/6356681
3 Source: Configuration: AI Performance – Software + Hardware (see below)
- INFERENCE using FP32 Batch Size Caffe GoogleNet v1 256 AlexNet 256.
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- Configurations for Inference throughput
- Processor :2 socket Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8180 CPU @ 2.50GHz / 28 cores HT ON , Turbo ON Total Memory 376.46GB (12slots / 32 GB / 2666 MHz).CentOS Linux-7.3.1611-Core , SSD sda RS3WC080 HDD 744.1GB,sdb RS3WC080 HDD 1.5TB,sdc RS3WC080 HDD 5.5TB , Deep Learning Framework caffe version: f6d01efbe93f70726ea3796a4b89c612365a6341 Topology :googlenet_v1 BIOS:SE5C620.86B.00.01.0004.071220170215 MKLDNN: version: ae00102be506ed0fe2099c6557df2aa88ad57ec1 NoDataLayer. Measured: 1190 imgs/sec vs Platform: 2S Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2699 v3 @ 2.30GHz (18 cores), HT enabled, turbo disabled, scaling governor set to “performance” via intel_pstate driver, 256GB DDR4-2133 ECC RAM. CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core), Linux kernel 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64. OS drive: Seagate* Enterprise ST2000NX0253 2 TB 2.5" Internal Hard Drive. Performance measured with: Environment variables: KMP_AFFINITY='granularity=fine, compact,1,0‘, OMP_NUM_THREADS=36, CPU Freq set with cpupower frequency-set -d 2.3G -u 2.3G -g performance. Deep Learning Frameworks: Intel Caffe: ( http://github.com/intel/caffe/), revision b0ef3236528a2c7d2988f249d347d5fdae831236. Inference measured with “caffe time --forward_only” command, training measured with “caffe time” command. For “ConvNet” topologies, dummy dataset was used. For other topologies, data was stored on local storage and cached in memory before training. Topology specs from https://github.com/intel/caffe/tree/master/models/intel_optimized_models (GoogLeNet, AlexNet, and ResNet-50), https://github.com/intel/caffe/tree/master/models/default_vgg_19 (VGG-19), and https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks/tree/master/caffe/imagenet_winners (ConvNet benchmarks; files were updated to use newer Caffe prototxt format but are functionally equivalent). GCC 4.8.5, MKLML version 2017.0.2.20170110. BVLC-Caffe: https://github.com/BVLC/caffe, Inference & Training measured with “caffe time” command. For “ConvNet” topologies, dummy dataset was used. For other topologies, data was st ored on local storage and cached in memory before training BVLC Caffe ( http://github.com/BVLC/caffe), revision 91b09280f5233cafc62954c98ce8bc4c204e7475 (commit date 5/14/2017). BLAS: atlas ver. 3.10.1.
- Configuration for training throughput:
- Processor :2 socket Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8180 CPU @ 2.50GHz / 28 cores HT ON , Turbo ON Total Memory 376.28GB (12slots / 32 GB / 2666 MHz).CentOS Linux-7.3.1611-Core , SSD sda RS3WC080 HDD 744.1GB,sdb RS3WC080 HDD 1.5TB,sdc RS3WC080 HDD 5.5TB , Deep Learning Framework caffe version: f6d01efbe93f70726ea3796a4b89c612365a6341 Topology :alexnet BIOS:SE5C620.86B.00.01.0009.101920170742 MKLDNN: version: ae00102be506ed0fe2099c6557df2aa88ad57ec1 NoDataLayer. Measured: 1023 imgs/sec vs Platform: 2S Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2699 v3 @ 2.30GHz (18 cores), HT enabled, turbo disabled, scaling governor set to “performance” via intel_pstate driver, 256GB DDR4-2133 ECC RAM. CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core), Linux kernel 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64. OS drive: Seagate* Enterprise ST2000NX0253 2 TB 2.5" Internal Hard Drive. Performance measured with: Environment variables: KMP_AFFINITY='granularity=fine, compact,1,0‘, OMP_NUM_THREADS=36, CPU Freq set with cpupower frequency-set -d 2.3G -u 2.3G -g performance. Deep Learning Frameworks: Intel Caffe: ( http://github.com/intel/caffe/ ), revision b0ef3236528a2c7d2988f249d347d5fdae831236. Inference measured with “caffe time --forward_only” command, training measured with “caffe time” command. For “ConvNet” topologies, dummy dataset was used. For other topologies, data was stored on local storage and cached in memory before training. Topology specs from https://github.com/intel/caffe/tree/master/models/intel_optimized_models (GoogLeNet, AlexNet, and ResNet-50), https://github.com/intel/caffe/tree/master/models/default_vgg_19 (VGG-19), and https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks/tree/master/caffe/imagenet_winners (ConvNet benchmarks; files were updated to use newer Caffe prototxt format but are functionally equivalent). GCC 4.8.5, MKLML version 2017.0.2.20170110. BVLC-Caffe: https://github.com/BVLC/caffe , Inference & Training measured with “caffe time” command. For “ConvNet” topologies, dummy dataset was used. For other topologies, data was st ored on local storage and cached in memory before training BVLC Caffe ( http://github.com/BVLC/caffe ), revision 91b09280f5233cafc62954c98ce8bc4c204e7475 (commit date 5/14/2017). BLAS: atlas ver. 3.10.1.)
