Numenta's Neuroscience-Inspired Technique Unlocks Up to 64x AI Speedup on Intel Xeon CPUs Over AMD, Nvidia
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Numenta has shown Intel Xeon CPUs can vastly outperform AMD, Nvidia CPUs and GPUs on AI workloads using their NuPIC techniques.
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For example, a 48-core Sapphire Rapids CPU was 64x faster than a 3rd-gen Xeon and 10x faster than Nvidia's A100 GPU.
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Numenta uses a neuroscience-inspired sparse computing approach versus the dense computing used in most CPUs/GPUs.
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They apply optimizations to make Xeon CPUs work better for sparse computing to unlock performance gains.
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Their solution runs on servers using Docker containers, allowing companies to leverage existing hardware for AI vs buying specialized chips.