Trends in Energy Estimates for Computing in AI/Machine Learning Accelerators, Supercomputers, and Compute-Intensive Applications

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.17331v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:14:33 GMT
• Title: Trends in Energy Estimates for Computing in AI/Machine Learning Accelerators, Supercomputers, and Compute-Intensive Applications
• Authors: Sadasivan Shankar, Albert Reuther
• Abstract summary: We examine the computational energy requirements of different systems driven by the geometrical scaling law. We show that energy efficiency due to geometrical scaling is slowing down. At the application level, general-purpose AI-ML methods can be computationally energy intensive.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: We examine the computational energy requirements of different systems driven by the geometrical scaling law, and increasing use of Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning (AI-ML) over the last decade. With more scientific and technology applications based on data-driven discovery, machine learning methods, especially deep neural networks, have become widely used. In order to enable such applications, both hardware accelerators and advanced AI-ML methods have led to the introduction of new architectures, system designs, algorithms, and software. Our analysis of energy trends indicates three important observations: 1) Energy efficiency due to geometrical scaling is slowing down; 2) The energy efficiency at the bit-level does not translate into efficiency at the instruction-level, or at the system-level for a variety of systems, especially for large-scale AI-ML accelerators or supercomputers; 3) At the application level, general-purpose AI-ML methods can be computationally energy intensive, off-setting the gains in energy from geometrical scaling and special purpose accelerators. Further, our analysis provides specific pointers for integrating energy efficiency with performance analysis for enabling high-performance and sustainable computing in the future.

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