With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence(Al)technologies and accumulation of big Earth data,Deep Learning(DL)has become an important method to discover patterns and understand Earth science processes in the pas...With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence(Al)technologies and accumulation of big Earth data,Deep Learning(DL)has become an important method to discover patterns and understand Earth science processes in the past several years.While successful in many Earth science areas,Al/DL applications are often challenging for computing devices.In recent years,Graphics Processing Unit(GPU)devices have been leveraged to speed up Al/DL applications,yet computational performance still poses a major barrier for DL-based Earth science applications.To address these computational challenges,we selected five existing sample Earth science Al applications,revised the DL-based models/algorithms,and tested the performance of multiple GPU computing platforms to support the applications.Application softwarepackages,performance comparisonsacross different platforms,along with other results,are summarized.This article can help understand how various Al/ML Earth science applications can be supported by GPU computing and help researchers in the Earth science domain better adopt GPU computing(such as supermicro,GPU clusters,and cloud computing-based)for their Al/ML applications,and to optimize their science applications to better leverage the computing device.展开更多
基金supported by NSF F I/UCRC(1841520),NASA Goddard CISTO,and NASA AIST programs.
文摘With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence(Al)technologies and accumulation of big Earth data,Deep Learning(DL)has become an important method to discover patterns and understand Earth science processes in the past several years.While successful in many Earth science areas,Al/DL applications are often challenging for computing devices.In recent years,Graphics Processing Unit(GPU)devices have been leveraged to speed up Al/DL applications,yet computational performance still poses a major barrier for DL-based Earth science applications.To address these computational challenges,we selected five existing sample Earth science Al applications,revised the DL-based models/algorithms,and tested the performance of multiple GPU computing platforms to support the applications.Application softwarepackages,performance comparisonsacross different platforms,along with other results,are summarized.This article can help understand how various Al/ML Earth science applications can be supported by GPU computing and help researchers in the Earth science domain better adopt GPU computing(such as supermicro,GPU clusters,and cloud computing-based)for their Al/ML applications,and to optimize their science applications to better leverage the computing device.
