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Chris Colby

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0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2019
—ORCID · none

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Systems, architecture and hardware · 1

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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

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
High-performance computing
ising model simulation
0.412019
High performance Monte Carlo simulation of ising model on TPU clusters · SC 2019
Performance modeling and evaluation › simulation
monte carlo simulation
0.412019
High performance Monte Carlo simulation of ising model on TPU clusters · SC 2019
High-performance computing › numerical linear algebra
distributed matrix computation
0.112019
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
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2019 High performance Monte Carlo simulation of ising model on TPU clusters
abstract
Large-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
SC4