Minisymposium Presentation

AI is transforming research through analysis of voluminous datasets and accelerating simulations by factors of up to a billion. Such acceleration far exceeds the speedups possible through improvements in CPU process and other kinds of algorithmic advances. To continue exploring the possibilities enabled, the research community requires an ecosystem that seamlessly and efficiently brings together scalable AI, HPC and large-scale data management. The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) offers an innovative computational ecosystem to enable AI-enabled research, bringing together carefully designed systems and groundbreaking technologies to provide, at no cost, a uniquely capable ecosystem composed of two major systems: Neocortex and Bridges-2. Neocortex embodies a revolutionary processor architecture to vastly shorten the time required for deep learning training, foster greater integration of artificial deep learning with scientific workflows, and accelerate graph analytics. Bridges-2 integrates additional scalable AI, HPC and high-performance parallel file systems for simulation, visualization and Big Data as a Service. Neocortex and Bridges-2 are integrated to form a tightly coupled and flexible ecosystem for AI- and data-driven research. We will cover a detailed description of the AI+HPC ecosystem at PSC and highlight a set of representative scientific research projects that are leveraging this advanced cyberinfrastructure