[NLPL Task Force (A)] concerns about LUMI

[Tiedemann, Jörg]

Dear infra people at NLPL,


I just had a discussion with other ML researchers about concerns with the new LUMI infrastructure that will come next year. As you may have seen, the consortium decided to go for AMD hardware and many people are concerned about compatibility of their code. CSC promises dedicated support to help with porting everything to the new system but there is, of course, a lot of concerns that people are a bit too optimistic about that procedure.

In order to push the LUMI team to be a bit more careful about the setup and the effort needed for setting everything up we would like to compile a list of essentials that we need in various fields to show what we are concerned about. We would like to push CSC and others in their support team to start earlier and with more resources to port, test and benchmark software we need to make our research possible.

In connection with this, it would be great to have a stack of software and libraries that we consider to be essential for us, if possible with priorities. That list could then be (partially) included in a message going to CSC to make them aware of the situation.

Could you help me to compile such a list, possibly with short comments about the items on the list. That can include general-purpose libraries and specialised software etc. Also, ask your colleagues. Thank you!


All the best,
Jörg

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Jörg Tiedemann
Language Technology                                                   https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/
University of Helsinki

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