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EFFECTIVE NEURAL NETWORKS WITHOUT GPU
SOL: Transparent #NeuralNetwork Acceleration on NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA
Workshop with Dr. Nicolas Weber, Senior Researcher, NEC Laboratories Europe and Dr. Erich Focht, Senior Manager R&D, NEC HPC Europe.

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In 2019, ICM University of Warsaw expanded its HPC infrastructure with a specialized vector computer, NEC SX Aurora TSUBASA (1), with eight vector processors. #AuroraTSUBASA is used at ICM UW for calculations in physics, chemistry, AI, as well as development work intended to adapt and optimize the existing software to work on the new computer architecture.

The Workshop is intended as an introduction to two software frameworks designed specifically for NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA:
--- NEC SOL – Transparent Neural Network Acceleration (2) – an AI acceleration middleware enabling wide range of optimizations for neural network workloads. It integrates with existing #MachineLearning frameworks such as #PyTorch and #TensorFlow. SOL offers broad support for hardware architectures including CPUs (x86, arm64), GPUs (NVIDIA), and NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA. It does not require modification of the original source code allowing the user to focus on solving the problem rather than on the specifics of the hardware architecture;
--- #Frovedis – FRamework Of VEctorized and DIStributed data analytics (3) – data analytics software primarily targeting the NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA architecture.

About SX-Aurora TSUBASA
NEC SX-Aurora Tsubasa, introduced to the market in 2018, is a vector processor (Vector Engine, VE) belonging to the SX architecture line which has been developed by NEC Corporation since mid-1980s (1). Unlike its stand-alone predecessors, Tsubasa has been designed as a PCIe attached card working within and being operated by an x86_64 host server (Vector Host, VH) running a distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system. The latter provides a complete software development environment for the connected VEs and runs Vector Engine Operating System (VEOS) which, in turn, serves as operating system to the VE programs (4).

(1) https://www.nec.com/en/global/solutio...
(2) http://sysml.neclab.eu/projects/sol/
(3) https://github.com/frovedis/frovedis
(4) https://github.com/veos-sxarr-NEC/veos