  We consider the distributed training of large-scale neural networks that
serve as PDE solvers producing full field outputs. We specifically consider
neural solvers for the generalized 3D Poisson equation over megavoxel domains.
A scalable framework is presented that integrates two distinct advances. First,
we accelerate training a large model via a method analogous to the multigrid
technique used in numerical linear algebra. Here, the network is trained using
a hierarchy of increasing resolution inputs in sequence, analogous to the 'V',
'W', 'F', and 'Half-V' cycles used in multigrid approaches. In conjunction with
the multi-grid approach, we implement a distributed deep learning framework
which significantly reduces the time to solve. We show the scalability of this
approach on both GPU (Azure VMs on Cloud) and CPU clusters (PSC Bridges2). This
approach is deployed to train a generalized 3D Poisson solver that scales well
to predict output full-field solutions up to the resolution of 512x512x512 for
a high dimensional family of inputs.

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