Accelerating Scientific Applications With SambaNova Reconfigurable Dataflow Architecture
Murali Krishna Emani, Venkatram Vishwanath, C. Adams, Michael E. Papka, Rick L. Stevens, Laura Florescu, Sumti Jairath, William YuChen Liu, Tejas Nama, Arvind K. Sujeeth · Computing in Science & Engineering · 2021
Our exploratory work finds that the SambaNova Reconfigurable Dataflow Architecture (RDA) along with the SambaFlow software stack provides for an attractive system and solution to accelerate AI for science workloads. We have observed the efficacy of using the system with a diverse set of science applications and reasoned their suitability for performance gains over traditional hardware. As the Data-Scale system provides for a very large memory capacity, the system can be used to train models that typically do not fit in a GPU. The architecture also provides for deeper integration with upcoming supercomputers at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a US Department of Energy Office of Science user facility, to help advance science insights.