[NLPL Task Force (A)] Pick up the thread?

[Stephan Oepen]

dear all,

i am sorry i have not replied earlier!  returning to a regular
semester start after a sabbatical year felt a little overwhelming at
times :-).

this coming friday is sadly not an option for me.  USIT (with thomas
in the lead) is organizing a national workshop on future AI and
machine learning support, which is part of their push towards a
national infrastructure project in this area.  i will present briefly
on behalf of our local group and NLPL.

which probably means we will be unable to convene the infrastructure
task force before the steering group meeting next week?  i could be
available 11:00–12:00 next tuesday, but i also see no need to very try
hard to meet before the steering group.  although, it might be useful,
of course, to exchange views among us four on the current state of the
infrastructure ...  if not that time, next wednesday 13:00–14:30 or
almost any time on friday (september 14) might work for me.

regarding deep learning support on Abel, i have rationalized
inactivity since the announcement before the summer that Abel shall
have its operating system upgraded this fall.  presumably, that move
should take away some of the hardship in installing e.g. TensorFlow.

however, i have recently managed to put a working TensorFlow
installation on Abel (following some internet advice).  it turned out
not that difficult, after all.  i had to compile a suitable version of
glibc and then arrange for the corresponding version of the dynamic
linker to wrap itself around the python binary and adjust
LD_LIBRARY_PATH appropriately.  once i had put the pieces together,
this is relatively straightforward and might well work for other
packages too that have in the past seemed hard to install on Abel
natively.  i have started to write up the recipe on the NLPL wiki and
plan on making an announcement to the ‘team’ mailing list before too
long.

if you are curious, please see below
‘/projects/nlpl/software/inf-5820/2018/’ (i initially did this
installation for a class i am teaching this semester).

more soon; best wishes, oe


On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 5:37 PM, Martin Matthiesen
<martin.matthiesen at csc.fi> wrote:
> Hello Bjørn and all,
>
> We all seem to be busy, should we meet the coming Friday 7.9. I am free all day.
>
> I am actually working on installing the Language Bank's software portfolio with the same scripts on Taito as well as a virtual machine. Not a lot to report yet, but it might be useful for NLPL as well.
> I would also suggest we split the NLPL software better into easily recreatable parts (eg make install) and less easier parts (eg. models that need a long time to train).
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bjørn Lindi" <bjorn.lindi at ntnu.no>
>> To: "infrastructure" <infrastructure at nlpl.eu>
>> Sent: Tuesday, 28 August, 2018 14:48:53
>> Subject: [NLPL Task Force (A)] Pick up the thread?
>
>> Hi all,
>> should we gather at a video conference at some point this or next week to pick
>> up the thread?  Believe we have one “stalled” thread vs abel and machine
>> learning libraries, but there is probably more. My schedule is pretty open,
>> hence I leave it you to suggest some preferred time.
>>
>> Talk to you soon.
>>
>> //Bjørn
>