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Chris Colby
dblp:238/1470
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2019
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Systems, architecture and hardware · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
High-performance computing · 39% Performance modeling and evaluation · 30% Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures · 30% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
High-performance computing
ising model simulation |
0.4 | 1 | 2019 | High performance Monte Carlo simulation of ising model on TPU clusters · SC 2019 |
Performance modeling and evaluation › simulation
monte carlo simulation |
0.4 | 1 | 2019 | High performance Monte Carlo simulation of ising model on TPU clusters · SC 2019 |
High-performance computing › numerical linear algebra
distributed matrix computation |
0.1 | 1 | 2019 | High performance Monte Carlo simulation of ising model on TPU clusters · SC 2019 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
tensorflow · 0.4low-precision arithmetic · 0.4BFLOAT16 · 0.4
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | High performance Monte Carlo simulation of ising model on TPU clustersabstractLarge-scale deep learning benefits from an emerging class of AI accelerators. Some of these accelerators' designs are general enough for compute-intensive applications beyond AI and Cloud TPU is one such example. In this paper, we demonstrate a novel approach using TensorFlow on Cloud TPU to simulate the two-dimensional Ising Model. TensorFlow and Cloud TPU framework enable the simple and readable code to express the complicated distributed algorithm without compromising the performance. Our code implementation fits into a small Jupyter Notebook and fully utilizes Cloud TPU's efficient matrix operation and dedicated high speed inter-chip connection. The performance is highly competitive: it outperforms the best published benchmarks to our knowledge by 60% in single-core and 250% in multi-core with good linear scaling. When compared to Tesla V100 GPU, the single-core performance maintains a ~10% gain. We also demonstrate that using low precision arithmetic---bfloat16---does not compromise the correctness of the simulation results. George Roumpos, Chris Colby, John R. Anderson |
SC | 4 |