Intro to AI Series: AI Accelerators

Sid Raskar, ALCF
Student Training/Education Beginner

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Host Taylor Childers, Paige Kinsley, and Venkat Vishwanath, ALCF
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From October 1 - November 12, 2024, the ALCF will host a 7-part weekly virtual training series to teach undergraduates and graduates the fundamentals of using world-class supercomputers to advance the use of AI for research.

 

Intro to AI Series: Session 7

Trainees will learn about the current advances in AI hardware and the ALCF AI Testbed that is being integrated with existing and upcoming supercomputers at the facility to accelerate science insights.

Lecturer

Siddhisanket (Sid) Raskar is an Assistant Computer Scientist in the AI/ML group at Argonne National Laboratory. Sid works on exploring AI accelerators' performance and efficiency for scientific machine learning applications. Sid's research is at the intersection of computer architecture, high-performance computing, and machine learning.

Sid obtained my Ph.D. under the guidance of Guang R. Gao on the topic of "Dataflow Software Pipelining" at the University of Delaware. Sid also has a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Delaware and a Bachelor's in Computer Engineering from the University of Pune.