Kickoff meeting - HPC and AI SIG

Friday Aug 2, 2024, 3:00 PM → 4:00 PM UTC

Hayden Barnes (HPC and AI SIG)

This is the kickoff meeting for the HPC and AI SIG. If you'd like to get the meeting link, join the ~sighpc--ai channel on chat.almalinux.org, and find more information about the SIG itself on its wiki page: https://wiki.almalinux.org/sigs/HPCandAI 

To add all HPC and AI SIG meetings to your calendar, use this URL in your calendaring software: https://events.almalinux.org/event/79/event.ics

Meeting link: https://meet.almalinux.org/hpc-ai-sig

3:00 PM → 3:59 PM Kickoff HPC and AI SIG meeting

We work together on HPC- and AI-related stuff for AlmaLinux.

This meeting's proposed agenda:
Welcome
[Voluntary] Introductions
Vote on adoption of HPC and AI SIG charter, https://wiki.almalinux.org/sigs/HPCandAI.html
Vote to prepare letter to NVIDIA requesting official support for AlmaLinux, to be drafted and circulated for approval before next meeting
Speed Talks
Walkthrough of deploying Slurm on AlmaLinux by @Zacarias Benta
Demo of ML training on Arm with AlmaLinux by @Hayden Barnes
Open Discussion

See more about what the HPC and AI SIG does here: https://wiki.almalinux.org/sigs/HPCandAI.html