Fast.AI Breaks ImageNet Record with NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs

Originally published at: Fast.AI Breaks ImageNet Record with NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs | NVIDIA Technical Blog

Researchers from fast.ai announced a new speed record for training ImageNet to 93 percent accuracy in only 18 minutes. Fast.ai alumni Andrew Shaw, and Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIU) researcher Yaroslav Bulatov achieved the speed record using 128 NVIDIA Tesla V100 Tensor Core GPUs on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, with the fastai and…