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VERIFICATION CHALLENGES @ GRAPHCORE
ResNet18 network visualization from POPLAR®
ABOUT US…
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Processors and software solutions designed for AI
>$310m in funding
IPU-Processor PCIe Cards and Poplar® software stack
Technology InvestorsProducts
200+ TEAM & GROWING FAST
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BRISTOL,CAMBRIDGE, LONDON,
PALO ALTO AUSTIN, SEATTLE OSLO, BEIJING
MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
Translate language
Discover drugs
Predict trades
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Optimize retail
Understand video
Drive a car
Converse with humans
Targeted adverts
CONFIDENTIAL
WE HAVE DEVELOPED A NEW KIND OF HARDWARE THAT WILL LET INNOVATORS CREATE THE NEXT GENERATION OF MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
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ResNet50 network visualization from POPLARTM
QUESTIONS
▪ Are we there yet? How much longer?
▪ Timescales
▪ Why didn't you didn't ask/tell me that?
▪ Communication
▪ Why isn't your team/compute/... bigger?
▪ Resources
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TIMESCALES
▪ Metrics
▪ Functional coverage
▪ Clear, well-defined goal
▪ Process
▪ Clear, well-defined process
▪ Experienced team
▪ Spanners
▪ Late specification changes
▪ 'Unknown unknowns' lurking
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TIMESCALES
▪ No plan survives first contact with the enemy*
▪ Silicon Verification remains an Art
▪ Verification is NEVER finished
* Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
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COMMUNICATION
▪ Communication is a two-way process
▪ Intra team
▪ Inter team
▪ Tribal knowledge
▪ Most communication is peer to peer
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COMMUNICATION
▪ Communication is a two-way process
▪ Education
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RESOURCING
▪ Compute
▪ Easy sell to top level management
▪ Licensing
▪ Simulation has become commodity
▪ Engineer
▪ Precious resource in short supply
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RESOURCING
▪ 2001 tech bubble & 2008 recession
▪ Industry graduate recruitment declined
▪ CS grads go to 'Financial Engineering' the The City
▪ Decline in CS/EE undergrads from mid noughties
▪ Aging talent pool has become less mobile
▪ Houses & spouses, children in education increases inertia
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RESOURCING
▪ Contractors - to fill in temporary shortfall?
▪ Must onboard any engineer
▪ Domain knowledge
▪ Tribal knowledge
▪ What is the half-life
▪ of contractor?
▪ of permanent employee?
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RESOURCING
▪ Other options
▪ Open another site close to talent
▪ Acquire a company
▪ Lack of resource
▪ Makes introducing new technology hard
▪ Just have to do less
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RESOURCING
▪ Graphcore buys more computers
▪ Graphcore is employing graduates
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