Huawei announces world's fastest AI training cluster

Huawei announced its strategy for the computing market and released Atlas 900, the world's fastest AI training cluster at the three-day long HUAWEI CONNECT 2019.

A powerhouse of AI computing, Atlas 900 will help make AI more readily available for different fields of scientific research and business innovation. Started on Wednesday, this year's HUAWEI CONNECT 2019 has been organized in Shanghai, China, said a statement.

Building on the technical strengths that Huawei has developed over the past decade, Atlas 900 combines the power of thousands of Ascend processors. It takes Atlas 900 only 59.8 seconds to train ResNet-50, the gold standard for measuring AI training performance. This is 10 seconds faster than the previous world record.

Atlas 900 is a powerhouse of AI computing, and it will bring new possibilities to different fields of scientific research and business innovation - anything from astronomy, weather forecasting, and autonomous driving, to oil exploration. Huawei also deployed Atlas 900 on Huawei Cloud as a cluster service, making extraordinary computing power more broadly accessible to its customers.