Inference-Optimized AI and High Performance Computing for Gravitational Wave Detection at Scale

Journal Article · 14 February 2022 · Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2022.828672 · OSTI ID:2562150

Chaturvedi, Pranshu ^[1]; Khan, Asad ^[1]; Tian, Minyang ^[2]; Huerta, E. A. ^[3]; Zheng, Huihuo ^[4]

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1. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
2. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
3. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States); University of Chicago, IL (United States)
4. Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

We introduce an ensemble of artificial intelligence models for gravitational wave detection that we trained in the Summit supercomputer using 32 nodes, equivalent to 192 NVIDIA V100 GPUs, within 2 h. Once fully trained, we optimized these models for accelerated inference using NVIDIA TensorRT. We deployed our inference-optimized AI ensemble in the ThetaGPU supercomputer at Argonne Leadership Computer Facility to conduct distributed inference. Using the entire ThetaGPU supercomputer, consisting of 20 nodes each of which has 8 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and 2 AMD Rome CPUs, our NVIDIA TensorRT-optimized AI ensemble processed an entire month of advanced LIGO data (including Hanford and Livingston data streams) within 50 s. Our inference-optimized AI ensemble retains the same sensitivity of traditional AI models, namely, it identifies all known binary black hole mergers previously identified in this advanced LIGO dataset and reports no misclassifications, while also providing a 3X inference speedup compared to traditional artificial intelligence models. We used time slides to quantify the performance of our AI ensemble to process up to 5 years worth of advanced LIGO data. In this synthetically enhanced dataset, our AI ensemble reports an average of one misclassification for every month of searched advanced LIGO data. We also present the receiver operating characteristic curve of our AI ensemble using this 5 year long advanced LIGO dataset. This approach provides the required tools to conduct accelerated, AI-driven gravitational wave detection at scale.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities (SUF)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-06CH11357; AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 2562150
• Journal Information: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Journal Name: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Vol. 5; ISSN 2624-8212
• Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.Copyright Statement
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English