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<div class="">Dear infra people at NLPL,</div>
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<div class="">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.</div>
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<div class="">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.</div>
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<div class="">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.</div>
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<div class="">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!</div>
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<div>All the best,</div>
<div>Jörg</div>
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Jörg Tiedemann<br class="">
Language Technology <a href="https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/" class="">https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/</a><br class="">
University of Helsinki</div>
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