TensorFlow* Optimizations from Intel

Production Performance for AI and Machine Learning

Accelerate TensorFlow Training and Inference on Intel® Hardware

TensorFlow* is an open source AI and machine learning platform used widely for production AI development and deployment. Often these applications require deep neural networks and extremely large datasets, which can become compute bottlenecks.


Intel releases its newest optimizations and features in Intel® Extension for TensorFlow* before upstreaming them into open source TensorFlow.

With a few lines of code, you can extend TensorFlow to:

  • Take advantage of the most up-to-date Intel software and hardware optimizations for TensorFlow.
  • Speed up TensorFlow-based training and inference turnaround times on Intel hardware.
  • Extend TensorFlow to further accelerate performance on Intel CPU and GPU hardware.

Intel also works closely with the open source TensorFlow project to optimize the TensorFlow framework for Intel hardware. These optimizations for TensorFlow, along with the extension, are part of the end-to-end suite of Intel® AI and machine learning development tools and resources.

Download the AI Tools

TensorFlow and Intel Extension for TensorFlow are available in the AI Tools Selector, which provides accelerated machine learning and data analytics pipelines with optimized deep learning frameworks and high-performing Python* libraries.

Download the Stand-Alone Version

Stand-alone versions of TensorFlow and Intel Extension for TensorFlow are available. You can install them using a package manager or build from the source.

 

TensorFlow | Intel Extension for TensorFlow

      

Features

Open Source TensorFlow Powered by Optimizations from Intel

  • Accelerate AI performance with Intel® oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library (oneDNN) features such as graph optimizations and memory pool allocation.
  • Automatically use Intel® Deep Learning Boost instruction set features to parallelize and accelerate AI workloads.
  • Reduce inference latency for models deployed using TensorFlow Serving.
  • Starting with TensorFlow 2.9, take advantage of oneDNN optimizations automatically.
  • Enable optimizations by setting the environment variable TF_ENABLE_ONEDNN_OPTS=1 in TensorFlow 2.5 through 2.8.

Intel® Extension for TensorFlow* 

  • Plug into TensorFlow 2.10 or later to accelerate training and inference on Intel GPUs with no code changes.
  • Automatically mix precision using bfloat16 or float16 data types to reduce memory footprint and improve performance.
  • Use TensorFloat-32 (TF32) math mode on Intel GPU hardware.
  • Optimize CPU performance settings for latency or throughput using an autotuned CPU launcher.
  • Perform more aggressive fusion through the oneDNN Graph API.

Optimized Deployment with OpenVINO™ Toolkit

  • Import your TensorFlow model into OpenVINO™ Runtime and use the Neural Networks Compression Framework (NNCF) to compress model size and increase inference speed.
  • Deploy with OpenVINO model server for optimized inference, accessed via the same API as TensorFlow Serving.
  • Target a mix of Intel CPUs, GPUs (integrated or discrete), NPUs, or FPGAs.
  • Deploy on-premise and on-device, in the browser, or in the cloud.

Access the latest AI benchmarks for TensorFlow and OpenVINO toolkit when running on data center products from Intel. Performance Data

Specifications

Processor:

  • Intel Xeon Scalable processor
  • Intel® Core™ processor
  • Intel GPU

Operating systems:

  • Linux*
  • Windows*

Languages:

  • Python
  • C++

Deploy TensorFlow models to a variety of devices and operating systems with Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit.

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