Companies also announce free IPU Test Drive with Graphcore AI hardware and Spell software.
Building, training, optimizing, and deploying AI models at scale can be excruciatingly difficult. Especially for large models that need to be optimized to run well at scale and need iterative hyper-parameter tuning to achieve desired accuracy. Since large models are so important to Graphcore, the company is now partnering with Spell to provide an end-to-end platform to support and automate the development process.
bringing together popular tools and frameworks in a single software platform. Management tools are critical for these large networks of accelerated systems. Note thatto address this need for HPC clusters. Spell is a more focussed platform tailored for ML operations support, helping with initial model training and automating the optimization process, as well as integrating with deployment tools and cloud service providers.
Developers can now automate pipelines for training, optimization, testing, and inference for Graphcore IPUs, and Spell takes care of all infrastructure configuration behind the scenes. Spell also offers a model registry to let you track versioning of different models and monitor model performance.Graphcore and Spell launch free IPU test drive
Providers of very large AI platforms such as Graphcore, SambaNova, and Cerebras struggle to provide access to potential developers and make the experience with early access a success. Now armed with Spell, Graphcore can confidently let developers experience the hardware on their own.