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Nvidia deep learning platform now available on Baidu Cloud

The Nvidia deep learning platform is now available as part of Baidu Cloud’s deep learning service.

The offering includes Pascal architecture-based Nvidia Tesla P40 GPUs and deep learning software. It provides training and inference acceleration for open-source deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow and PaddlePaddle, as well.

Baidu Cloud’s deep learning service is currently available.

[Image courtesy: Nvidia]

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