David Norman
Director of Machine Learning Frameworks, Graphcore

Dave Norman is the director of machine learning frameworks at Graphcore, where he heads the frameworks team and is the creator of the intelligence procession unit and Poplar Software. He’s been in software engineering for over 25 years, specializing in real-time, high-performance and embedded systems. Previously, he was at Hewlett Packard, writing control software for experimental wireless and broadband modems; has worked for various companies on drivers for novel hardware, 3G/4G base stations, and the tools chain for an FPGA-like architecture; and worked abroad in New Zealand developing real-time weather graphics.

Sessions

4:10pm–4:50pm Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Location: Grand Ballroom H

Targeting high-performance ML accelerators using XLA

Accelerators

Victoria Rege (Graphcore), David Norman (Graphcore)

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Victoria Rege and David Norman dive into the software optimization for new accelerators using TensorFlow and accelerated linear algebra (XLA). Read more.