Presentation
Keynote: Interactive and Urgent High-Performance Computing in the Era of AI
DescriptionUsing UK national Exascale AI research resource called Isambard-AI as an example, this talk examines motivating user stories for interactive and urgent HPC with large language models (LLMs) and AI for science to uncover potential synergies. Adopting a cloud-native approach for resource management, scheduling, virtualization, and software packaging, delivery, and deployment has helped reduce access barriers for non-traditional HPC or AI users, while preserving the familiar interface of classic HPC platforms. Isambard-AI is based on the HPE Cray EX4000 system, and housed in a new, energy efficient Modular Data Centre in Bristol, UK. With nearly 5,500 NVIDIA Grace-Hopper GH200, it delivers over 21 ExaFLOP/s of 8-bit AI FLOPs and over 250 PetaFLOP/s of 64-bit FLOPs, for under 5MW.
