Agenda

Spatial Computing
Phil James Roxby, AMD

Abstract:
New compute architectures with high performance cores, distributed memories and hardware accelerated data movement are becoming available in new form factors, even finding their ways into laptops. In this talk, I will discuss one such architecture, AMD’s AI Engine, and show how researchers are taking advantage of open source code to map their applications onto this spatial architecture. During the talk, I will highlight the unique features of the AI Engine, and describe how open source is making these devices more accessible including new capabilities like dynamic dispatch of kernels. In addition, I will describe an application ported to the AI Engines which is able to outperform CPUs and GPUs to show the breadth of target applications possible on these spatial compute devices.

Bio:
Phil has a PhD from the University of Manchester on implementing ML applications on programmable logic, and worked at the University of Birmingham as a lecturer, where his research interests included cryptography on programmable logic as well as general new design tools for IP reuse. He joined Xilinx in 2000, and has been responsible for a number of programs including the AI Engine, SDAccel and SDNet. Most recently, Phil is working on tools to make AI Engines more widely accessible now as part of AMD.

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Break

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Closing Remarks