Acceleration of a Deep Neural Network for the compact muon solenoid
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Author(s)
Ourida, Tarik
Luk, Wayne
Tapper, Alex
Barbone, Marco
Bainbridge, Robert
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
There are ongoing efforts to investigate theories that aim to explain the current shortcomings of the Standard Model of particle physics. One such effort is the Long-Lived Particle Jet Tagging Algorithm, based on a DNN (Deep Neural Network), which is used to search for exotic new particles. This paper describes two novel optimisations in the design of this DNN, suitable for implementation on an FPGA-based accelerator. The first involves the adoption of cyclic random access memories and the reuse of multiply-accumulate operations. The second involves storing matrices distributed over many RAM memories with elements grouped by index. An evaluation of the proposed methods and hardware architectures is also included. The proposed optimisations can yield performance enhancements by more than an order of magnitude compared to software implementations. The innovations can also lead to smaller FPGA footprints and accordingly reduce power consumption, allowing for instance duplication of compute units to achieve increases in effective throughput.
Editor(s)
De Vita, R
Espinal, X
Laycock, P
Shadura, O
Date Issued
2024-05-06
Date Acceptance
2023-05-08
Citation
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2024, 295
ISSN
2100-014X
Publisher
EDP Sciences
Journal / Book Title
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume
295
Copyright Statement
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2024
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202429509002
Source
26th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2023-05-08
Finish Date
2023-05-12
Coverage Spatial
Norfolk, VA
Date Publish Online
2024-05-06