  Alibaba has China's largest e-commerce platform. To support its diverse
businesses, Alibaba has its own large-scale data centers providing the
computing foundation for a wide variety of software applications. Among these
applications, deep learning (DL) has been playing an important role in
delivering services like image recognition, objection detection, text
recognition, recommendation, and language processing. To build more efficient
data centers that deliver higher performance for these DL applications, it is
important to understand their computational needs and use that information to
guide the design of future computing infrastructure. An effective way to
achieve this is through benchmarks that can fully represent Alibaba's DL
applications.
