The fourth generation Intel Xeon scalable processor helps Baidu Intelligent Cloud’s new generation cloud server BCC instance performance upgrade

September 5, 2023, Beijing - At the 2023 Baidu Cloud Intelligence Conference held today, Baidu Smart Cloud announced the full sale of multiple sixth-generation BCC (Baidu Cloud Compute) cloud server instances and released the sixth-generation elastic bare metal Example . Thanks to the fourth generation Intel® Comprehensive improvements not only meet users' needs for computing power in diverse application scenarios with excellent performance and excellent TCO, but also help build an industry-leading and innovative intelligent upgrade AI platform, building a solid foundation for accelerating the digital upgrade of thousands of industries. computing power base.

Liang Yali, Vice President of Intel's Marketing Group and General Manager of China's Cloud and Industry Solutions Department, pointed out: "In the wave of rapid development of artificial intelligence, Intel insists on technological innovation to bring ultimate performance computing products to cloud data center customers. The fourth generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor will help Baidu Intelligent Cloud build an efficient intelligent cloud infrastructure with its native AI acceleration capabilities and comprehensively improved overall performance."

Baidu Vice President Xie Guangjun said: "Future cloud services will focus on and continue to deepen the process of intelligent upgrading on the basis of realizing the digital transformation of all walks of life. Our sixth-generation cloud servers, bare metal and other products are derived from AI Starting with IaaS layer and AI PaaS layer capabilities, we provide the ultimate computing power and efficient AI development capabilities required by users. Products and technologies such as the fourth generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor and Intel® AMX provide our new products. It provides comprehensive support from computing power, AI acceleration, memory expansion to data security.”

Baidu Smart Cloud's sixth-generation BCC cloud server computing integrates Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions with general-purpose instance specification family c6/g6, memory-based instance specification family m6, local SSD-type instance specification family l6, and sixth-generation elastic bare metal instances. (Intel® AMX) acceleration engine allows users to easily obtain powerful native AI capabilities on any instance, fully meeting the needs of users under the wave of digital transformation to integrate AI acceleration capabilities to cover complex computing scenarios. Built into the fourth-generation Xeon scalable processor, Intel AMX is specifically targeted at AI workloads and has a new instruction set and circuit design that can help achieve multiple efficiency improvements in tensor processing in tasks such as image recognition and object detection. It can be used in different data formats such as INT8 and BF16 to accelerate various types of AI models. This not only means that the accelerated AI computing power will be seamlessly expanded to more instances, but also users using the standard specification family can Benefit.

4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors

Thanks to the new generation of Xeon scalable processors and their new performance core microarchitecture design, the cloud server instances launched this time have received comprehensive product upgrades in computing, storage and network capabilities. Specification example products, the overall performance improvement can be up to 70%1. It mainly has:

The processing speed has been greatly improved, and breakthroughs have been made in low latency and single-thread performance.

For computing-intensive tasks, a high-frequency instance specification family is launched that supports a maximum base frequency of 3.1GHz and an all-core turbo frequency of 3.4GHz.

It implements new support for advanced memory and next-generation I/O technologies, including DDR5, PCIe 5.0, and CXL 1.1. Multiple instance specification families have achieved substantial performance enhancements on different storage layers.

Ultra -high throughput to improve the operating efficiency of IO-intensive services.

The large core instance specification family has 2 x 100Gbps underlying capabilities to facilitate two-way interconnection VPC (Virtual Private Cloud, private network), and the maximum network bandwidth is increased by 150% compared with the previous generation2.

Implement support for ERI (Elastic RDMA Interface).

In an era where everything is intelligent, cloud computing and AI are profoundly changing the development and progress of all walks of life. As a co-builder of the AI ​​open ecosystem, Intel is committed to using its leading computing power, powerful AI acceleration capabilities, and excellent instance security performance to work with Baidu Intelligent Cloud to create an intelligent system that combines excellence, flexibility, and security. Infrastructure to meet users' computing power needs based on diverse application scenarios, thus promoting the digital transformation of enterprises into a new journey.