# Hugging Face — Accelerating PyTorch Transformers with Intel Sapphire Rapids - part 1

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2023-01-02
- Category: not stated
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- Group: routine
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/intel-sapphire-rapids
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2116-accelerating-pytorch-transformers-with-intel-sapphire-rapids-part-1
- Subject: Platform

To accelerate PyTorch transformer training on a cluster of Intel Sapphire Rapids CPUs using Intel oneAPI CCL and IPEX, with instructions for setting up on AWS R7iz instances.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/intel-sapphire-rapids:

> In this post, you will learn how to accelerate a PyTorch training job with a cluster of Sapphire Rapids servers running on AWS.

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