Optimize your AI/ML workloads with Amazon EC2 Graviton (CMP323)

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Key Takeaways

  • AWS graviton processors, including the latest graviton 4, offer significant performance improvements and cost savings for AIML workloads.
  • Graviton processors have hardware features like expanded SIMD engines, native bfloat16 support, and increased memory bandwidth that benefit AIML workloads.
  • AWS has optimized popular AIML frameworks like PyTorch, Jax, and ONNX Runtime to take advantage of graviton's hardware features, delivering up to 3.5x performance improvements.
  • Graviton is a great fit for a variety of AIML workloads, including generative AI text generation, vector database for retrieval-augmented generation, and classical ML tasks like NLP and classification.
  • Anthropic has seen significant performance and cost benefits by adopting graviton across their AIML data processing pipeline, including 20% throughput improvements, 30% latency reduction, and up to 30% cost savings.

Graviton Processors for AIML

  • Graviton 3 and 4 processors have hardware innovations like expanded SIMD engines, native bfloat16 support, and increased memory bandwidth that benefit AIML workloads.
  • Graviton 4 offers up to 30% better performance per core, 3x more vCPUs, and 6x the memory capacity compared to graviton 3.
  • Customers like Sprinklr and Databriks have seen significant performance and cost benefits by adopting graviton 2 and 3 for their AIML workloads.

AIML Framework Optimizations

  • AWS has worked with the open-source community to optimize popular AIML frameworks like PyTorch, Jax, and ONNX Runtime to take advantage of graviton's hardware features.
  • Optimizations include SIMD and SVE kernel support, bfloat16 kernels, dynamic input quantization, and transparent huge pages.
  • These software optimizations have delivered 1.5x to 3.5x performance improvements on graviton 3, and graviton 4 offers an additional 15-28% uplift.

AIML Workloads on Graviton

  • Generative AI text generation: Graviton 4 can generate up to 70 tokens per second for a 70B parameter model, a 55% improvement over graviton 3.
  • Vector databases: Graviton's increased memory bandwidth, cache, and vector processing capabilities benefit vector-based retrieval and similarity search.
  • Data ingestion and preparation: Graviton's performance and cost benefits enable scaling data processing pipelines to handle petabyte-scale datasets more efficiently.

Anthropic's Graviton Adoption

  • Anthropic has migrated a significant portion of their AIML data processing pipeline to graviton instances, seeing 20% throughput improvements, 30% latency reduction, and up to 30% cost savings.
  • Key optimizations include using Nix for multi-architecture builds, updating to newer versions of frameworks like Jax, and monitoring/observability during the migration process.
  • Anthropic is looking to further leverage graviton by adopting accelerator-based instances and migrating more of their core infrastructure to graviton-powered instances.

Conclusion and Call to Action

  • Evaluate your AIML workloads and consider where graviton can provide performance and cost benefits, whether for generative AI, vector databases, data processing, or classical ML tasks.
  • Examine your AIML frameworks and models to see if they are optimized for graviton, and work with AWS to address any gaps.
  • Experiment with graviton instances to assess the price-performance for your specific workloads, as the benefits can be significant.

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