Notes from the Accelerating Devices Lab, an ATML at Jülich Supercomputing Centre. Please handle with care.

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  • GPU Vendor/Programming Model Compatibility Table

    For a recent talk at DKRZ in the scope of the natESM project, I created a table summarizing the current state of using a certain programming model on a GPU of a certain vendor, for C++ and Fortran. Since it lead to quite a discussion in the session, I made...
  • Talk: Introduction to HPC

    TL;DR: I held a HPC intro talk. Slides are below. In MAELSTROM, we connect three areas of science: 🌍Weather and climate simulation with 🤖Machine Learning methods and workflows using 📈HPC techniques and resources. Halfway into the project, we held a boot camp at JSC to teach this Venn diagram to...
  • Poster: OpenGPT-X - Training Large Language Models on HPC Systems

    Poster publication: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/32006 The 14th JLESC workshop (JLESC: Joint Laboratory for Extreme-Scale Computing) was hosted by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in Urbana, Illinois from 28th September to 30th September. We had the opportunity to present the OpenGPT-X project in form of a poster. On it, you can...
  • DOIng it Right! (DOIs for This Blog)

    1This blog is an experiment. We want to share bits and pieces of our work; the reports we write, the presentations we hold, or the little discoveries we make, or even some first, water-testing investigations; and all the rest. It’s a documentation of what we do. Little bits of science,...
  • First Benchmarks with AMD Instinct MI250 GPUs at JSC

    A few months ago, we extended the JURECA Evaluation Platform1 at JSC by two nodes with AMD Instinct MI250 GPUs (four GPUs each). The nodes are Gigabyte G262-ZO0 servers, each with a dual socket AMD EPYC 7443 processor (24 cores per socket, SMT-2) and with four MI250 GPUs (128 GB...
  • OOPS Version 1 Release

    A few days ago, OPTIMA announced the release of deliverable 3.5, to which I contributed. This deliverable is part of a set of five deliverables under work package 3. But first, let’s talk about OPTIMA. OPTIMA is an EU-funded project whose goal is to prove that several HPC applications can...
  • A mathematician's introduction to transformers and large language models

    About This blog post is based on a presentation I held at the “New Trends in Computational Science in Engineering and Industrial Mathematics” workshop in Magdeburg on 01/07/2022. My goal is to give a brief introduction to the state of current large language models, the OpenGPT-X project, and the transformer...
  • 10 Year Anniversary Workshop of NVIDIA Application Lab at Jülich

    On June 21 and 22, we held a workshop looking back on the last ten years of our lab together with NVIDIA – the NVIDIA Application Lab at Jülich (or NVLab, as I sometimes abbreviate it). The material can be found in the agenda at Indico. We invited a set...
  • X-Dev Website at fz-juelich.de

    At the end of May, Forschungszentrum Jülich got a new website. Finally, the group also has a dedicated page there, listing the things we do, the project we are part of, and all the members in the group. And thanks to a photo shooting by Sebastian, we have great portraits...
  • MAELSTROM: First benchmarks at ISC22

    On June 1, in the context of the AI and HPC for Weather and Climate Session at ISC2022, we presented the very first benchmark results for the MAELSTROM Machine Learning applications. The work presented highlights of some of the results obtained in the MAELSTROM Deliverable D3.4 and was shown following...
  • Multi-GPU Computing Tutorial at ISC22

    On May 29, we held the first in person tutorial since the start of the Covid pandemic. And while it was a little weird being back physically among people, it was also great at the same time. Gone are the challenges of teaching in video conferences, albeit also all the...
  • Hello, X-Dev Blog!

    Welcome to the X-Dev Blog, the blog of the Accelerating Devices Lab at Jülich Supercomputing Centre of Forschungszentrum Jülich. We are an ATML, focusing on improving usage of GPUs and other accelerators, in close collaborations with our HPC users. We are taking part in different third-party-funded project, in which we...