Keysight Technologies introduced Keysight AI (KAI) Data Centre Builder, an advanced software suite that emulates real-world workloads to evaluate how new algorithms, components, and protocols impact the performance of AI training.
KAI Data Centre Builder’s workload emulation capability integrates large language model (LLM) and other artificial intelligence (AI) model training workloads into the design and validation of AI infrastructure components – networks, hosts, and accelerators. This solution enables tighter synergy between hardware design, protocols, architectures, and AI training algorithms, boosting system performance.
The KAI Data Centre Builder workload emulation solution reproduces network communication patterns of real-world AI training jobs to accelerate experimentation, reduce the learning curve necessary for proficiency, and provide deeper insights into the cause of performance degradation, which is challenging to achieve through real AI training jobs alone. Keysight customers can access a library of LLM workloads like GPT and Llama, with a selection of popular model partitioning schemas like Data Parallel (DP), Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP), and three-dimensional (3D) parallelism.
Using the workload emulation application in the KAI Data Centre Builder enables AI operators to:
- Experiment with parallelism parameters, including partition sizes and their distribution over the available AI infrastructure (scheduling)
- Understand the impact of communications within and among partitions on overall job completion time (JCT)
- Identify low-performing collective operations and drill down to identify bottlenecks
- Analyse network utilisation, tail latency, and congestion to understand the impact they have on JCT
The KAI Data Centre Builder's new workload emulation capabilities enable AI operators, GPU cloud providers, and infrastructure vendors to bring realistic AI workloads into their lab setups to validate the evolving designs of AI clusters and new components. They can also experiment to fine-tune model partitioning schemas, parameters, and algorithms to optimise the infrastructure and improve AI workload performance.
Ram Periakaruppan, Vice President and General Manager, Network Test & Security Solutions, Keysight, said: "As AI infrastructure grows in scale and complexity, the need for full-stack validation and optimisation becomes crucial. To avoid costly delays and rework, it's essential to shift validation to earlier phases of the design and manufacturing cycle. KAI Data Centre Builder’s workload emulation brings a new level of realism to AI component and system design, optimising workloads for peak performance.”
KAI Data Centre Builder is the foundation of the Keysight Artificial Intelligence (KAI) architecture, a portfolio of end-to-end solutions designed to help customers scale artificial intelligence processing capacity in data centres by validating AI cluster components using real-world AI workload emulation.
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