Jan. 13, 2022, 5:08 p.m. | Dr. Mario Michael Krell

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Accelerating ResNet-50 Training on the IPU: Behind our MLPerf Benchmark

A technical guide on efficient hardware scaling, memory optimization strategies and performance tools

Written by: Dr. Mario Michael Krell, Zhenying Liu, Emmanuel Menage, and Bartosz Bogdanski

Graphcore engineers delivered outstanding performance at scale for the latest MLPerf v1.1 training results published in December 2021 [9], with our IPU-POD₁₆ outperforming Nvidia’s flagship DGX A100 on ResNet-50.

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Here, we will explain how our team achieved these accelerations at …

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