Meeting Notes 06-27-2022

Minutes of SBI-FAIR June 27, 2022, Meeting

Present: Kamil Iskra, Deborah Penchoff, Vikram Jadhao, Shantenu Jha, Geoffrey Fox, Piotr Luszczek, Baixi Sun, Gregor von Laszewski

Updates

Virginia

• Foundation Models – collect surrogates
• Need a group DOE report. Use last year’s approach with a common response initialized by Piotr https://docs.google.com/document/d/19cbBj2IMIMa_HUPAUaREy3zRYBQfEoS5hCmM7wyU48c/edit?usp=sharing
• Note plans went a bit different as due to transfer Indiana and Virginia were not asked for annual reports

Tennessee

• SABATH software
• MLCommons Paper ISC Piotr Luszczek went and did not get Covid. BOF presentation from Piotr and H3 conference H3 workshop report from Jeyan Thiyagalingam.

Rutgers

• Vincent Pascuzzi has a prototype software system running with JCS Kadupitiya
• Davis DOE AI meeting is July 26-28
• Train Foundation models
• Performance of workflow
• Omniverse

**Indiana **

• Hire postdoc now that JCS Kadupitiya has graduated and hired by Microsoft
• Soft label paper progressing
• Using Tensorflow for simulation

Argonne

• Kamil Iskra described publication plan of a paper to ASPLOS and poster to SC
• Baixi noted June 30 abstract deadline and gave the presentation
• 1.3 TB dataset
• I/O takes ~81% when run on 8 nodes and 64 GPUs on ThetaGPU
• Clump data and load balance to decrease load time gives a factor of 2.16 speedup
• Use Memory not SSD for storage
• Gregor suggested compressing data in shared memory
• Global arrays and RDMA