Intel and Baidu Smart Cloud jointly explore new opportunities for industrial development

September 25, 2024, Beijing - At the 2024 Baidu Cloud Intelligence Conference, Intel was invited to attend and disclosed that the next-generation cloud instance based on the Intel® Xeon® 6 processor will be launched on Baidu Smart Cloud. The two parties shared their practices and explorations in the fields of cloud data centers, large-model software services and ecology, and sustainable development , and conducted in-depth discussions on topics such as providing "core" power for industrial development and upgrading in the AI ​​era.

Liang Yali, vice president of Intel's Marketing Group and general manager of Cloud and Industry Solutions and Data Center Sales in China, pointed out, "To embrace the new productivity represented by AI, Intel and Baidu have built modern infrastructure for cloud data centers, continuously optimized software, and deepened their efforts in areas such as green and sustainable development. Based on years of cooperation, the two parties will continue to create diversified solutions through continuous technological innovation in the future to provide customers from all walks of life with better services and experience."

Vice President of Intel Marketing Group, General Manager of Cloud and Industry Solutions and Data Center Sales in China

Liang Yali

In the AI ​​era, cloud data centers, with their superior computing power, massive storage, and high-speed network connections, have become the infrastructure supporting AI application data processing, model training, and intelligent analysis . In response to the cloud data center's demand for scalable, flexible, efficient, and reliable platforms, Intel launched the Intel® Xeon® 6 processor family. With built-in Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel® AMX) technology and xFasterTransformer (xFT), a large-model distributed inference engine optimized for Intel CPUs, this series of processors can meet the needs of various data accuracies, different application scenarios, and diversified expansion, and has both performance and energy efficiency advantages. At the conference, Intel also announced that it will officially release the Xeon 6 performance core processor tomorrow, and a new generation of cloud instances based on this new processor will also be launched on Baidu Smart Cloud, bringing excellent performance. In addition, Intel has also worked with Baidu to develop DPU intelligent network solutions, which significantly improve the performance and efficiency of cloud data centers by providing specialized hardware acceleration and offloading functions, so that data centers can meet the growing computing and network needs in the AI ​​era.

At the same time, facing the increasingly diversified development trend of thousands of industries, customers are increasingly inclined to create professional and cost-effective solutions through close collaboration of software and hardware. Among them, at a time when cost reduction and efficiency improvement have become a top priority, Intel and Baidu have launched a large model inference service based on Xeon processors on the Baidu Smart Cloud Qianfan large model platform, which has a 132% performance improvement over the third-generation Xeon processor1, providing customers with a more cost-effective choice for some large model scenarios. In addition, Intel continues to support the performance optimization and reasoning acceleration of Baidu's PaddlePaddle deep learning framework through the OpenVINO™ tool suite. It is worth noting that Intel has also joined hands with industry partners to create the Enterprise AI Open Platform (OPEA) to accelerate the promotion of AI everywhere.

While building a flexible and efficient infrastructure, how to achieve green and sustainable development is also a challenge facing the industry at this stage. Intel and Baidu, who share the same philosophy, work together to continuously explore new technologies, promote the rapid development and implementation of technologies such as cold plate liquid cooling and immersion liquid cooling, and continuously optimize the existing whole cabinet liquid cooling solutions, and promote ecological cooperation and the formulation of industry standards, in order to help the development of green data centers by improving the performance of existing data centers and building new high-efficiency data centers.

Facing the AI ​​wave with huge potential, Intel is continuously promoting the evolution of product technology with the spirit of "engineer", while continuing to work with Baidu to promote the implementation and application acceleration of innovative product technology in many industries such as medical care, energy, and transportation. Looking to the future, the two parties will also deepen cooperation and focus on creating solutions that combine performance and cost-effectiveness to meet the actual needs of customers, so as to truly bring the results and value of AI technology into thousands of industries.

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1Baidu Smart Cloud internal testing results as of March 2024. Test configurations – Baseline configuration: Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8350C processor @ 2.60 GHz, 256 GB memory, CentOS Linux release 7.9; New configuration: Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8563C processor @ 2.60 GHz, 256 GB memory, CentOS Linux release 9.0. Intel does not control or audit third-party data. Please review this content, consult other sources, and confirm whether the data mentioned is accurate.