Hey Ampere Developers,
Ready to unlock peak performance and stay ahead in the Arm ecosystem? This month’s Ampere Developer Newsletter is packed with tools, insights, and collaboration opportunities.
We’re thrilled to introduce the Ampere Performance Toolkit, dive deep into AI/ML optimization strategies, and celebrate a new era of collaboration with CoreCollective. Let’s get to it!
Unleash Peak Performance: Introducing the Ampere Performance Toolkit (APT)!
Ever feel like optimizing your cloud-native workloads is a guessing game? You’re not alone! Pinpointing bottlenecks – whether in the core, memory, scheduler, or I/O – can be a headache.
Good news: We’ve just released the Ampere Performance Toolkit (APT), your new secret weapon for transparent, reproducible, and fast performance tuning on Ampere platforms.
APT empowers you to:
- Kickstart your applications on Ampere systems with confidence.
- Gather precise, architecture-aware performance data effortlessly.
- Diagnose CPU pipeline behavior, memory bottlenecks, and system contention with clarity.
- Pinpoint performance hogs across compute, memory, and I/O.
- Implement targeted optimizations backed by hard data.
- Collaborate and reproduce results by sharing configurations and benchmarks.
APT isn’t here to reinvent the wheel. It enhances your existing toolkit (like perf!) by packaging recommended configurations, event sets, and workflows meticulously tailored for Aarch64. The goal is simple: transform “something feels slow” into “here’s exactly why, and here’s how to fix it!”
If you’re serious about squeezing every drop of performance from your systems, APT isn’t just a nice-to-have – it’s essential.
Ready to boost your performance?
- Read the full announcement: Introducing the Ampere Performance Toolkit
- Dive into the code: - https://github.com/AmpereComputing/ampere-performance-toolkit
- We thrive on feedback, issues, and contributions!
CoreCollective: Accelerating the Arm64 Ecosystem, Together!
Big news for the Arm ecosystem! We’re proud to be a founding participant in CoreCollective, a groundbreaking initiative fostering open collaboration and innovation.
Arm64 is already a powerhouse across the cloud-native landscape, and CoreCollective is taking that commitment to the next level. Building on Linaro’s foundational work, this new alliance aims to unify efforts and drive the entire software ecosystem forward. Ampere is excited to be at the forefront!
Discover Ampere’s role in this exciting new chapter: https://amperecomputing.com/blogs/corecollective-by-arm-and-linaro-as-a-launch-partner
From FLOPs to $: Master AI/ML Optimization with Shiva Kintali
How do you build cutting-edge AI/ML models without breaking the bank? This month, we sat down with Shiva Kintali, a brilliant mind from Ampere’s AI team, for our latest Developer Impact interview.
In a fascinating chat with Dave Neary, Shiva demystifies the evolution of AI/ML compute, from the compute needs of foundational algorithms to determining what hardware you need to satisfy production SLAs. He offers invaluable insights on defining your optimal service level objectives, ensuring you get maximum performance without overspending on hardware.
Don’t miss these expert strategies. Watch the full interview: AI/ML’s Evolution & Complexity: FLOPs to Production SLAs.
Your Voice Matters: Join the Ampere Developer Community!
Got questions? Want to share your insights? Or just looking to connect with fellow Ampere enthusiasts and experts? Our Ampere Developer Community Forum is the place to be!
We’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and success stories on APT, CoreCollective, AI inference, or anything Ampere-related.
Join the conversation: https://community.amperecomputing.com
Happy coding and see you in the next edition!
The Ampere Developer Relations Team