Before revision:  We demonstrated the scaling of FFN training up to 1024 Intel Knights Landing (KNL) nodes at Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. We investigated the training accuracy with different optimizers, learning rates, and optional warm-up periods. We discovered that square root scaling for learning rate works best beyond 16 nodes, which is contrary to the case of smaller number of nodes, where linear learning rate scaling with warm-up performs the best. Our distributed training reaches 95\% accuracy in approximately 4.5 hours on 1024 KNL nodes using Adam optimizer .
After revision:  We demonstrated the scaling of FFN training up to 1024 Intel Knights Landing (KNL) nodes on the Theta supercomputer. Our trained models achieved similar level of inference performance but took less training time compared to previous methods. Our study on the effect of batch size on the FFN training suggests ways to further improve training efficiency. Our findings on the optimal learning rate and batch size agree with previous works .