Overview
This project will develop and deploy a novel instrument for accelerating deep learning research at the University of Illinois. The instrument will integrate the latest computing, storage, and interconnect technologies in a purpose-built shared-use system. This Instrument will deliver unprecedented performance levels for extreme data-intensive emerging fields of research with far-reaching impacts in many areas, such as computer vision, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, healthcare and education. The instrument development will be driven by the UofI deep learning community needs and will be carried out in collaboration with IBM and Nvidia. The instrument will serve as a focal point for the rapidly growing deep learning research community at UofI, enable expansion of several research programs, and contribute to STEM education and training.
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1725729
http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/enabling/data/deep_learning
Personnel
Co-PIsBill Gropp <wgropp@uiuc.edu> Volodymyr Kindratenko <kindrtnk@illinois.edu> Roy Campbell <rhc@illinois.edu> Jian Peng <jianpeng@illinois.edu> | Development teamVolodymyr Kindratenko Research engineers: Dawei Mu, Yan Zhan Postdocs: Shirui Luo, Ashish Misra GRAs: Benjamin Rabe, Hadi Hashemi | Advisory Board |
Campus collaborators
Participants Name | Department/ Affiliation | Title | Research Area | Project Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N. Hovakimyan | MechSE | Prof. | Agricultural Data Analysis | |
M. Hudson | Crop Sciences | Prof. | Bioinformatics | |
| S. Sinha | CS | Prof. | Bioinformatics | |
| E. Tajkhorshid | MCB | Prof | Bioinformatics | |
| G. Robinson | IGB | Director of IGB | Bioinformatics | |
| J. Peng | CS | Asst. Prof. | Bioinformatics | |
| M. Do | ECE | Prof. | Computer Vision | |
| R. Yeh | ECE | Grad. Student | Computer Vision | |
| G. Allen | Astronomy/Education | Prof/Assoc. Dean Education | Cosmology & Astrophysics | |
| R. Brunner | Astronomy | Prof. | Cosmology & Astrophysics | |
| D. George | Astronomy | Grad. Student | Cosmology & Astrophysics | |
| E. Escudero | NCSA | Post-doc | Cosmology & Astrophysics | |
| M. Turk | Info. Sci. | Asst. Prof. | Cosmology & Astrophysics | |
| R. Farivar | CS | Adj. Sr. Lecturer | Deep Learning | |
| S. Wang | Geography | Prof | Earth and Environment | |
| J. Sirignano | ISE | Asst. Prof. | Financial Engineering | |
| Y. Fan | ECE | Grad. Student | Image Generation & Analysis | |
| D. Forsyth | CS | Prof. | Image Generation & Analysis | |
| T. Huang | ECE | Prof. | Image Generation & Analysis | |
| G. Ko | ECE | Grad. Student | Image Generation & Analysis | |
| J. Yu | ECE | Grad. Student | Image Generation & Analysis | |
| J. Towns | NCSA | Executive Director | Information and Technology | |
| N. He | ISE | Asst. Prof. | Large-scale Optimization | |
| R. Nagi | ISE | Director of ISE | Large-scale Optimization | |
| H. Hashemi | CS | Grad. Student | Machine Learning | |
| R. Rutenbar | CS | Prof/Head of CS | Machine Learning | |
| S. Koyejo | CS | Asst. Prof. | Machine Learning | |
| J. Hockenmaier | CS | Assoc. Prof. | Natural Language Processing | |
| M. Sammons | CS | Research Asst. Prof. | Natural Language Processing | |
| L. Schwartz | Linguistics | Asst. Prof. | Natural Language Processing | |
| L. Paquette | Education | Asst. Prof. | Social Network Analysis | |
| Y. Hashash | CEE | Prof. | Soil Mechanics | |
| K. McHenry | NCSA | Senior Research Scientist | Spatial Data Analysis | |
| A. Das | ECE | Grad. Student | Speech Recognition | |
| M. H. Johnson | ECE | Prof. | Speech Recognition | |
| P. Smaragdis | CS | Asst. Prof. | Speech Recognition | |
| W. Gropp | NCSA/CS | Director, NCSA/Prof. CS | Systems & Software | |
| I. Gupta | CS | Assoc. Prof. | Systems & Software | |
| D. Katz | NCSA | Asst. Director Sci. Software & Appl. | Systems & Software | |
| V. Kindratenko | NCSA/ECE | Senior Research Scientist | Systems & Software | |
| K. Nahrstedt | CS | Prof. | Systems & Software | |
| R. Campbell | CS | Prof/Assoc. Dean IT | Systems & Software | |
| S. Lazebnik | CS | Assoc. Prof. | Text mining | |
| J. Han | CS | Prof. | Text Mining | |
| W.M. Hwu | ECE | Prof. | Text Mining | |
| C. Zhai | CS | Prof. | Text Mining |
System
P9 + NVIDIA Volta GPUs + HDR IB