Dr. Venkatram Vishwanath (Data Science Team Lead, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility), Jessica Liu (Product Director, Cerebras Systems), and Rebecca Lewington (Technology Evangelist, Cerebras Systems) discuss Argonne’s work with a Cerebras CS-2 system and ALCF’s new AI Testbed, which aims to evaluate the usability and performance of machine-learning-based high-performance computing applications, running on next-generation AI accelerator machines.
Learn more about how ALCF is using a CS-2 to accelerate their important research: https://www.cerebras.net/cerebras-customer-spotlight-overview/spotlight-argonne-national-laboratory/
Learn more about the ALCF AI Testbed: https://www.alcf.anl.gov/alcf-ai-testbed
Learn more about this research: https://www.anl.gov/article/waltzing-the-virus-study-on-covid19-reproduction-earns-argonne-researchers-gordon-bell-special-prize
Learn more about Cerebras: https://cerebras.net
TIMESTAMPS
0:42 Argonne Leadership Computing Facility overview
2:00 Cerebras Systems overview
2:26 Understanding how SARS-CoV-2 spike protein interacts with human host cell for drug discovery
4:20 Accelerating atom simulations to identify candidates of interest with artificial intelligence
6:28 50X improvement in time to solution
7:25 Training vs inference for drug discovery
9:24 Connectomics, study of the brain
12:09 Bottlenecks
14:30 Specialized solution for specialized AI problem
17:42 Software and distributed computing across a single node
19:01 Heterogeneous computing, AI and simulations
21:19 ALCF AI Testbed
22:09 ANL – Cerebras Systems close 1collaboration and key learnings
23:10 Accelerating a small neural network with CS-2
24:13 What will additional CS-2 systems make possible?
25:55 Solving connectomics with Aurora
26:52 NLP to mine scientific research
27:52 What would you do with unlimited compute resources?
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