Scientific applications are increasingly adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to advance science. There are specialized hardware accelerators designed and built to run AI applications efficiently. With a wide diversity in the hardware architectures and software stacks of these systems, it is challenging to understand the differences between these accelerators, their capabilities, programming approaches, and how they perform, particularly for scientific applications. In this tutorial, we will cover an overview of the AI accelerators landscape focusing on SambaNova, Cerebras, Graphcore, Groq, and Habana systems along with architectural features and details of their software stacks. We will have hands-on exercises to help attendees understand how to program these systems by learning how to refactor codes and compile and run the models on these systems. The tutorial will provide the attendees with an understanding of the key capabilities of emerging AI accelerators and their performance implications for scientific applications
| Date | 17 November 2024 |
|---|---|
| Time | 8:30am - 5pm EST |
| Location | B201 |
| Time (EST) | Topic/ Speaker |
|---|---|
| 08.30 - 08.40 AM | Overview: Murali Emani(ANL) [Slides] |
| 08.40 - 09.10 AM | Cerebras: Leighton Wilson (Cerebras) [Slides AI] [Slides SDK] |
| 09.10 - 10.00 AM | Hands-on With Cerebras Systems Leighton Wilson (Cerebras), Sid Raskar (ANL) [Instructions] |
| 10.00 - 10.30 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10.30 - 11.00 AM | Habana: Buke Ao (Intel Habana) [Slides] |
| 11.00 - 11.30 AM | Hands-on with Intel Habana Gaudi2 Buke Ao (Intel Habana) [Instructions] |
| 11.30 - 12.00 PM | Sambanova: Petro Junior Milan (Sambanova) [Slides] |
| 12.00 - 01.30 PM | Lunch Break |
| 01.30 - 02.00 PM | Hands-on with Sambanova Systems Petro Junior Milan (Sambanova), Sid Raskar (ANL) [Instructions] |
| 02.00 - 02.30 PM | Groq: Sanjif Shanmugavelu (Groq) [Slides] |
| 02.30 - 03.00 PM | Hands-on with Groq Systems Sanjif Shanmugavelu (Groq), Sid Raskar (ANL) [Instructions] |
| 03.00 - 03.30 PM | Coffee Break |
| 03.30 - 04.00 PM | Graphcore: Sid Raskar (ANL) [Slides] |
| 04.00 - 04.30 PM | Hands-on with Grapchore Systems Sid Raskar (ANL) [Instructions] |
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Contributors: Siddhisanket (Sid) Raskar, Varuni Sastry, Bill Arnold, Murali Emani.
This research used resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported under Contract DE-AC02-06CH11357.
