[Workshop] ScaledML: Moore's Law in the age of AI Chips

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Moore's Law in the age of AI Chips1

The workshop was presented by Jim Keller, Intel.

Moore's Law

Moore ’ S Law Transistors

Brought by both new architectures and new materials.

Moore ’ S Law Transistors

Transistor Scaling

Transistor Scaling

Paradigm Shift

Paradigm Shift

1000 Scalars

1000 Scalars

Complexity Limits

Why not big computers?

Key Problems:

  • How to program 1 million computers?
  • Address > 260 objects?
  • Make 1 peta look-ups into 1 petabyte of data?

Abstraction Layers

Abstraction Layers

Compute models

Compute models

Data models

Data models

GPUs & AI Chips

GPUs

GPUs

AI Chips

  • SIMD
  • Local Memory
  • No privilege model
  • hard to program

AI Chips

Accelerators

Technology Optimism

Technology Optimism

Summary

TO BE DETERMINED

  1. ScaledML, http://scaledml.org/2020/