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Parallelizing Training of Deep Generative Models on Massive Scientific Datasets
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Authors: Sam Ade Jacobs,Brian Van Essen,David Hysom,Jae-Seung Yeom,Tim Moon,Rushil Anirudh,Jayaraman J. Thiagaranjan,Shusen Liu,Peer-Timo Bremer,Jim Gaffney,Tom Benson,Peter Robinson,Luc Peterson,Brian Spears
ArXiv: 1910.02270
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Abstract URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02270v1
Training deep neural networks on large scientific data is a challenging task that requires enormous compute power, especially if no pre-trained models exist to initialize the process. We present a novel tournament method to train traditional as well as generative adversarial networks built on LBANN, a scalable deep learning framework optimized for HPC systems. LBANN combines multiple levels of parallelism and exploits some of the worlds largest supercomputers. We demonstrate our framework by creating a complex predictive model based on multi-variate data from high-energy-density physics containing hundreds of millions of images and hundreds of millions of scalar values derived from tens of millions of simulations of inertial confinement fusion. Our approach combines an HPC workflow and extends LBANN with optimized data ingestion and the new tournament-style training algorithm to produce a scalable neural network architecture using a CORAL-class supercomputer. Experimental results show that 64 trainers (1024 GPUs) achieve a speedup of 70.2 over a single trainer (16 GPUs) baseline, and an effective 109% parallel efficiency.
ArXiv: 1910.02270
Document: PDF DOI
Artifact development version: GitHub
Abstract URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02270v1
Training deep neural networks on large scientific data is a challenging task that requires enormous compute power, especially if no pre-trained models exist to initialize the process. We present a novel tournament method to train traditional as well as generative adversarial networks built on LBANN, a scalable deep learning framework optimized for HPC systems. LBANN combines multiple levels of parallelism and exploits some of the worlds largest supercomputers. We demonstrate our framework by creating a complex predictive model based on multi-variate data from high-energy-density physics containing hundreds of millions of images and hundreds of millions of scalar values derived from tens of millions of simulations of inertial confinement fusion. Our approach combines an HPC workflow and extends LBANN with optimized data ingestion and the new tournament-style training algorithm to produce a scalable neural network architecture using a CORAL-class supercomputer. Experimental results show that 64 trainers (1024 GPUs) achieve a speedup of 70.2 over a single trainer (16 GPUs) baseline, and an effective 109% parallel efficiency.
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