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Volume: 35 | Article ID: HPCI-232
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AI-assisted automated workflow for real-time x-ray ptychography data analysis via federated resources
  DOI :  10.2352/EI.2023.35.11.HPCI-232  Published OnlineJanuary 2023
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We present an end-to-end automated workflow that uses large-scale remote compute resources and an embedded GPU platform at the edge to enable AI/ML-accelerated real-time analysis of data collected for x-ray ptychography. Ptychography is a lensless method that is being used to image samples through a simultaneous numerical inversion of a large number of diffraction patterns from adjacent overlapping scan positions. This acquisition method can enable nanoscale imaging with x-rays and electrons, but this often requires very large experimental datasets and commensurately high turnaround times, which can limit experimental capabilities such as real-time experimental steering and low-latency monitoring. In this work, we introduce a software system that can automate ptychography data analysis tasks. We accelerate the data analysis pipeline by using a modified version of PtychoNN -- an ML-based approach to solve phase retrieval problem that shows two orders of magnitude speedup compared to traditional iterative methods. Further, our system coordinates and overlaps different data analysis tasks to minimize synchronization overhead between different stages of the workflow. We evaluate our workflow system with real-world experimental workloads from the 26ID beamline at Advanced Photon Source and ThetaGPU cluster at Argonne Leadership Computing Resources.

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Anakha V Babu, Tekin Bicer, Saugat Kandel, Tao Zhou, Daniel J. Ching, Steven Henke, Siniša Veseli, Ryan Chard, Antonio Miceli, Mathew Joseph Cherukara, "AI-assisted automated workflow for real-time x-ray ptychography data analysis via federated resourcesin Electronic Imaging,  2023,  pp 232-1 - 232-6,  https://doi.org/10.2352/EI.2023.35.11.HPCI-232

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