ATHENA: Analytical Tool for Heterogeneous Neuromorphic Architectures

Technical Report · Wed Sep 28 04:00:00 EDT 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1890038· OSTI ID:1890038

Plagge, Mark ^[1]; Parker, Luke ^[1]; Feinberg, Benjamin ^[1]; Agarwal, Sapan ^[1]; Rothganger, Fredrick ^[1]; Hughes, Clayton ^[1]; Cardwell, Suma G. ^[1]; McFarland, John ^[2]; Awad, Amro ^[2]

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1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
2. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States)

The ASC program seeks to use machine learning to improve efficiencies in its stockpile stewardship mission. Moreover, there is a growing market for technologies dedicated to accelerating AI workloads. Many of these emerging architectures promise to provide savings in energy efficiency, area, and latency when compared to traditional CPUs for these types of applications — neuromorphic analog and digital technologies provide both low-power and configurable acceleration of challenging artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. If designed into a heterogeneous system with other accelerators and conventional compute nodes, these technologies have the potential to augment the capabilities of traditional High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms [5]. This expanded computation space requires not only a new approach to physics simulation, but the ability to evaluate and analyze next-generation architectures specialized for AI/ML workloads in both traditional HPC and embedded ND applications. Developing this capability will enable ASC to understand how this hardware performs in both HPC and ND environments, improve our ability to port our applications, guide the development of computing hardware, and inform vendor interactions, leading them toward solutions that address ASC’s unique requirements.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: NA0003525
• OSTI ID: 1890038
• Report Number(s): SAND2022-13310; 710254
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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