{"674434":{"#nid":"674434","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CSE Graduate Takes High-Performance Computing Expertise to Top Tech Corporation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs another semester wraps up at Georgia Tech, new alumni will soon take the next step in their professional journeys.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of those graduates is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mikhailisaev\u0022\u003EMikhail (Michael) Isaev\u003C\/a\u003E, who earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE). After he walks across the stage and accepts his diploma at McCamish Pavilion on May 2, Isaev\u2019s next move is to work at NVIDIA Research as a research scientist.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdvised by School of CSE Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vuduc.org\/v2\/\u0022\u003ERich Vuduc\u003C\/a\u003E, Isaev\u2019s research interests lie at the intersection of computer architecture, high-performance computing (HPC), and deep learning. He focuses on deep learning workload analysis and software\/hardware co-design of large-scale deep learning systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIsaev received notable recognition for his co-design research at ModSim\u201922, where \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/award-winning-tool-bridges-gap-between-supercomputing-software-and-hardware\u0022\u003Ehe won the Dr. Sudhakar Yalamanchili Award\u003C\/a\u003E. He earned the \u201cSudha\u201d Award for his research on ParaGraph.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EParaGraph provides an automated way to emulate application software in ways that a network simulator can understand. The tool makes co-design a bilateral process, facilitating better supercomputing applications and closing the gap for hardware and software experts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile the award recognizes researchers for their contributions to the computer modeling and simulation field, it carried much more sentimental meaning to Isaev. Yalamanchili was a Georgia Tech faculty member who died in 2019. Isaev and his collaborators personally knew and worked with Yalamanchili.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI felt very honored to receive the award,\u201d Isaev said. \u201cI had the pleasure to meet and talk to Sudha, so it felt great to bring home this award in his name and, in a way, give back to Georgia Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother meaningful project Isaev worked on was Calculon, a tool for co-design optimization of large language models (LLMs).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nCalculon analyzes large co-design spaces of hardware and software configurations. This ability \u0026nbsp;progresses the discovery of new, and sometimes surprising, configurations that might outperform current methods.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBy focusing specifically on LLMs, Calculon modeled more aspects of performance optimization at greater accuracy and speeds several orders of magnitude faster than ParaGraph.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs tech companies train and retrain LLMs on tens of thousands of graphics processing units (GPUs), search spaces grow larger and become more vast as larger systems are introduced.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIsaev\u2019s work on Calculon is timely since there was no open-source tool that could quickly navigate this space and determine the best configurations. Calculon is a simple, yet effective, tool that can do the job fast and efficiently, sparking interest from many companies and research community\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIsaev presented Calculon at conferences like Supercomputing 2023, ModSim\u201923, and the ASSYST workshop at ISCA 2023. He also gave talks at NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, IBM, and the Department of Energy to share his research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe talks at NVIDIA, Google, and Microsoft were notable since Isaev interned as a Ph.D. student at the companies. He has also interned at HP Labs and Meta.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIsaev interned at NVIDIA four times, three with the company\u2019s Network Research Group. That is where he worked on ParaGraph and Calculon under one of his mentors, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nicm.dev\/\u0022\u003ENic McDonald\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhile Calculon won no award, I feel it was more well-received and got better traction with the HPC community,\u201d Isaev said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u201cThis is partly due to Calculon being a product of collaboration between my internships and conference presentations. It truly is a tool created by HPC researchers for HPC research.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAs another semester wraps up at Georgia Tech, new alumni will soon take the next step in their professional journeys.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of those graduates is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mikhailisaev\u0022\u003EMikhail (Michael) Isaev\u003C\/a\u003E, who earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE). 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