Neural Network Inversion-Based Model for Predicting an Optimal Hardware Configuration: Solving Computationally Intensive Problems

Abstract

Deciding the number of processors that can efficiently speed-up solving a computationally intensive problem while perceiving efficient power consumption constitutes a major challenge to researcher in the HPC high performance computing realm. This paper exploits machine learning techniques to propose and implement a recommender system that recommends the optimal HPC architecture given the problem size. An approach for multi-objective function optimization based on neural network (neural network inversion) is employed. The neural network inversion approach is used for forward problem optimization. The objective functions in concern are maximizing the speedup and minimizing the power consumption. The recommendations of the proposed prediction systems achieved more than 89% accuracy for both validation and testing set. The experiments were conducted on 2500 CUDA core on Tesla K20 Kepler GPU Accelerator and Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2695 v2.