For users of AI and GPU-acceleration on POWER systems
Our Slack workspace continues to be the place the user group “meets”. If you use GPU-acceleration on POWER9 then please join the conversation there: https://www.poweraiug.org/join/
During the pandemic we haven’t met (face to face or on Zoom etc.) as a user group, but we may organise meeting in the coming months if there is sufficient demand for one!
Our third meeting is a 90 minute breakout session at CIUK 2019.
To attend the User Group please register to attend CIUK. No separate registration is necessary for the User Group meeting.
Agenda:
| 10:00 | Welcome Andrew Edmondson – University of Birmingham |
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| 10:05 | Convergence of HPC & AI on Summit and elsewhere Paul Graham – NVIDIA |
| 10:25 | The current state of AI on Power Andrew Laidlaw – IBM |
| 10:45 | POWER9 at Birmingham – TensorFlow 2 and more Andrew Edmondson – University of Birmingham |
| 11:05 | Use of AI on Power in Research Ed ffrench – IBM |
| 11:25 | Close |
The second Power AI UG meeting took place on Monday 8th July in Birmingham from 10am to 4pm. Please see the links below for slides.
Murray Learning Centre, room UG10.
We recommend taking the train to University Station, then the Murray Learning Centre is a two minute walk.
| 10.00 | Registration and refreshments | ||
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| 10.30 | Introduction and Welcome | slides | Andrew Edmondson, University of Birmingham |
| 10.45 | “EmPOWERing Software: Porting Code to Run on our Power AI Cluster” | slides | Simon Branford, University of Birmingham |
| 11.30 | “Using POWER at Warwick University” | slides | Dugan Witherick, University of Warwick |
| 12:15 | Lunch at the Edgbaston Park Hotel Restaurant (sponsored by OCF and IBM) | ||
| 13:45 | Tour of the University of Birmingham’s fully water-cooled research data centre | Simon Thompson, University of Birmingham | |
| 14:30 | “Building scientific software on POWER, what help is available?” | slides | Andrew Edmondson, University of Birmingham |
| 15:15 | “Introductions to SnapML and Large Model Support” | slides | Giorgos Aniftos, IBM |
| 16.00 | Close |
Please join our Slack Community where we share advice and help for deploying and using GPU-accelerated software on POWER systems.
In December 2018 we held our first Power AI UG meeting as a breakout session at CIUK.