Fujitsu Breaks ImageNet Record with V100 Tensor Core GPUs

Originally published at: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/fujitsu-breaks-imagenet-record-with-v100-tensor-core-gpus/

Researchers from Fujitsu just announced a new speed record for training ImageNet to 75% accuracy in 74.7 seconds. The new record is faster than the previous test by more than 47 seconds achieved by Sony in November of last year. The team achieved the record by using 2,048 NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs, and the MXNet…