Robert-Jan Schlimbach
I have been at SURF for 5 years as an AI+HPC advisor, helping AI researchers make GPUs go brrr on our National Supercomputer Snellius. Few parts of the intersection of AI+HPC remain a mystery to me, and as an aspiring wise old man I love to preach the gospel of efficiency to anyone that will listen.
Session
12-04
11:30
25min
Fundamental bottlenecks for AI and HPC
Robert-Jan Schlimbach
Snellius and other HPC systems are not magic, even if it sometimes may feel so.
Efficient usage of the available hardware is the difference between a model that may be just 'OK', or a model that is State-of-the-art (and I have examples in my pocket to prove it!).
Trusting that whatever you throw at the system will be efficient 'automagically' is the quickest way to burn GPU hours without getting what you really want: breakthrough science!
Generative AI and Machine Learning
Progress