Alibaba Cloud Developer

Jun 12, 2019 · Artificial Intelligence

How Alibaba’s PAISoar Accelerates Deep Learning: 101× Speedup on 128 GPUs

Alibaba engineers detail the PAISoar distributed training framework, showing how RDMA‑optimized hardware, Ring AllReduce algorithms, and user‑friendly APIs boost deep‑learning models—like the GreenNet CNN—to 101‑fold speedups on 128 GPUs, dramatically reducing training time from days to under a day.