[NLPL Task Force (A)] CSC - Call for Pilots

[Filip Ginter]

:D we typed ours straight into the submission form, clicking the link now
gives me the attached screenshot. :D Basically, there was next to nothing
about this kind of directory structure / infrastructure / access stuff you
mention. What we asked was about 50K GPU hours to train Finnish BERT as the
primary target, and the rest of the proposal went into some detail of why
doing something like this would be important and impactful.

F




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On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 11:48 AM Stephan Oepen <oe at ifi.uio.no> wrote:

> could you imagine sharing your proposals?  maybe there is a way to
> consolidate into one ‘umbrella’ activity, which could represent NLPL at
> large?  part of my motivation would be to start early with getting our
> project directory, software and data, and access mechanisms in place.  at
> the same time, i believe there is current work on ELMo training both at
> uppsala and oslo ... so i imagine exchangingnotes could be beneficial to
> everyone :-).
>
> oe
>
>
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 at 10:43 Filip Ginter <figint at utu.fi> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Not sure about how strict the deadline is. On the upside, both Turku and
>> Helsinki submitted one proposal. We did mention NLPL in our proposal, and
>> I'd venture a guess Jörg mentioned NLPL in his as well. Training fancy
>> modern language models does sound like one of these two proposals. ;)
>>
>> F
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 11:27 AM Stephan Oepen <stephan.oepen at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> colleagues,
>>>
>>> even though the deadline for the call below is closed, i wonder whether
>>> we should try to get NLPL enrolled as a pilot user for the new CSC system,
>>> in particular its AI partition.  i imagine the infrastructure task force
>>> could help with software installations (e.g. PyTorch, AllenNLP, OpenNMT).
>>>  could we makes use of up to 300 V100 gpus for a month or two?  train ELMo
>>> embeddings on some of our multilingual corpora?
>>>
>>> https://research.csc.fi/call-for-pilots
>>>
>>> cheers, oe
>>>
>>>
>>>
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