Cambridge Centre for Research Assistant/Associate in Simulation and Exploration of Next-Generation AI Hardware (Fixed Term)
Department of Computer Science and Technology, West Cambridge
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 3 years.
Applications are invited for a full-time Research Assistant/Associate to work on the simulation and exploration of next-generation AI hardware designs.
The UK's Advanced Research Invention Agency (ARIA) is supporting an ambitious programme of work that aims to reduce the hardware costs associated with training AI models by more than 1000x.
The objective of our project, funded within this programme, is to develop a scalable and modular simulation framework. This will require multiple levels of simulation focused at different system layers and levels of fidelity. A key goal is to allow novel hardware ideas to be easily incorporated and evaluated, i.e. to aid the development of next-generation hardware for GenAI.
The work at Cambridge (and Imperial) will focus on the simulation of the accelerator hardware. To guarantee simulation fidelity, we will perform cross-validation of our simulation with real FPGA implementations. This will require modelling of both compute hardware and memory subsystems.