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SUMMARY:Deterministic Low Latency Supercomputing at Scale
DTSTART:20221216T141500
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DESCRIPTION:Oskar Mencer\nCEO Maxeler Technologies\, a Groq Company\nAbstr
 act\nIn this talk I will describe Groq Dataflow computing\, deterministic 
 program execution and how it leads to matrix computations and neural netwo
 rks at scale.\nThe Groq architecture is a direct consequence of the end of
  Moore’s law\, combined with the end of multicore performance scaling. T
 o address the\ncompute challenges of the future\, the hardware is structur
 ed to maximize the number of arithmetic units\, the amount of SRAM memory 
 per chip\, and allow for sufficient data shuffling bandwidth in-between.\n
 Groq’s game changing performance leads to new opportunities in the rapid
 ly converging worlds of HPC and AI. I will show applications from basic ma
 trix computations to simulating quantum computers and execution of neural 
 networks. As with any new technology\, emerging conflicts create a conflic
 t cycle which needs to be addressed faster than it arises. Groq software\,
  the compiler and programming tools\, resolve the core conflicts of new co
 mputing technology: reduced precision\, massive parallelism\, and the band
 width bottleneck to get data on and off the chip. Ultimately\, Groq techno
 logy makes raw performance easy to use\, desirable and affordable while en
 abling applications at a scale that otherwise would not be achievable.\n\n
 Biography\nOskar Mencer got a B.Sc. from the Technion in Israel and a PhD 
 in Computer Engineering at Stanford University\, developing the basis for 
 reduced precision dataflow computing. In 2003\, at the Computing Sciences 
 Center at Bell Labs\, Oskar took his research out and founded Maxeler Tech
 nologies\, which delivered production dataflow machines to JP Morgan\, Che
 vron\, ENI\, Citibank\, UK Daresbury Labs\, and the German supercomputing 
 center in Jülich. Oskar is a member of Academia Europaea. In 2022\, Maxel
 er got acquired by Groq\, and continues to build maximum performance solut
 ions for HPC and AI.\n\n 
LOCATION:BC 410 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20410
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