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SuperNeurons: Dynamic GPU Memory Management for Training Deep Neural Networks
Going deeper and wider in neural architectures improves the accuracy, while
the limited GPU DRAM places an undesired restriction on the network design
domain. Deep Learning (DL) practitioners either need change to less desired
network architectures, or nontrivially dissect a network across multiGPUs.
These distract DL practitioners from concentrating on their original machine
learning tasks. We present SuperNeurons: a dynamic GPU memory scheduling
runtime to enable the network training far beyond the GPU DRAM capacity.
SuperNeurons features 3 memory optimizations, \textit{Liveness Analysis},
\textit{Unified Tensor Pool}, and \textit{Cost-Aware Recomputation}, all
together they effectively reduce the network-wide peak memory usage down to the
maximal memory usage among layers. We also address the performance issues in
those memory saving techniques. Given the limited GPU DRAM, SuperNeurons not
only provisions the necessary memory for the training, but also dynamically
allocates the memory for convolution workspaces to achieve the high
performance. Evaluations against Caffe, Torch, MXNet and TensorFlow have
demonstrated that SuperNeurons trains at least 3.2432 deeper network than
current ones with the leading performance. Particularly, SuperNeurons can train
ResNet2500 that has basic network layers on a 12GB K40c.Comment: PPoPP '2018: 23nd ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of
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The Design of a System Architecture for Mobile Multimedia Computers
This chapter discusses the system architecture of a portable computer, called Mobile Digital Companion, which provides support for handling multimedia applications energy efficiently. Because battery life is limited and battery weight is an important factor for the size and the weight of the Mobile Digital Companion, energy management plays a crucial role in the architecture. As the Companion must remain usable in a variety of environments, it has to be flexible and adaptable to various operating conditions. The Mobile Digital Companion has an unconventional architecture that saves energy by using system decomposition at different levels of the architecture and exploits locality of reference with dedicated, optimised modules. The approach is based on dedicated functionality and the extensive use of energy reduction techniques at all levels of system design. The system has an architecture with a general-purpose processor accompanied by a set of heterogeneous autonomous programmable modules, each providing an energy efficient implementation of dedicated tasks. A reconfigurable internal communication network switch exploits locality of reference and eliminates wasteful data copies
Wireless Communications in the Era of Big Data
The rapidly growing wave of wireless data service is pushing against the
boundary of our communication network's processing power. The pervasive and
exponentially increasing data traffic present imminent challenges to all the
aspects of the wireless system design, such as spectrum efficiency, computing
capabilities and fronthaul/backhaul link capacity. In this article, we discuss
the challenges and opportunities in the design of scalable wireless systems to
embrace such a "bigdata" era. On one hand, we review the state-of-the-art
networking architectures and signal processing techniques adaptable for
managing the bigdata traffic in wireless networks. On the other hand, instead
of viewing mobile bigdata as a unwanted burden, we introduce methods to
capitalize from the vast data traffic, for building a bigdata-aware wireless
network with better wireless service quality and new mobile applications. We
highlight several promising future research directions for wireless
communications in the mobile bigdata era.Comment: This article is accepted and to appear in IEEE Communications
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