AI_INFN Technical Meeting

Name: AI_INFN Technical Meeting
Start: 2025-03-03T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-03-03T17:10:00+01:00
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Monday 3 Mar 2025, 16:00 → 17:10 Europe/Rome

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Virtual meeting room (zoom): https://l.infn.it/ai-infn-meeting

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AI_INFN Technical meeting – Minutes and actions

Date: 2025-03-03

Operations

Tracked developments:

Automation of RKE2 deployments in INFN Cloud

Gioacchino tagged the image with a new version schema. Snakemake is now available.
Gioacchino is working on Jupyter for INFN Cloud, trying to remain aligned with AI_INFN.
Plan migration to Jupyter 5 together with Gioacchino.
The new-named image will be the default one in the platform soon.

Develop monitoring and accounting infrastructure (R. Petrini)

Practitioning on the new storage cluster for practicing with monitoring, something went wrong with the setup and we have just re-created it.
Created a new dashboard for InterLink.

Environment setup (S. Giagu, S. Bordoni, L. Cappelli)

Offloading tests with virtual kubelets (G. Bianchini, D. Ciangottini)

3 buckets made available;
JuiceFS on Redis fail to scale beyond 100 concurrent jobs. This can still be optimized, but we won’t be able to improve by orders of magnitude. We hope in a factor 2.
Reached 600 jobs. Tomorrow we start with GPUs.
Offloading towards FPGA. SSH tunnel is not working any longer and it is not clear why.

Acquisto FPGA

Diego collected information from Enrico and others and tried to contact an AMD engineer. The main problem is RHEL8.3 is needed to run the board, but OpenStack requires RHEL9.
Call with Mario Ruiz. He was surprised we had that V70. It seems a recent revision with a platform that is not acknowleded by the Xilinx driver. It is a more recent object that it was not supposed to be bought. Then he wrote us that the platform is not supported by VitisAI: we should get in touch with the distributor to ask for the software platform to be replaced (possibly replacing the board itself).
Given the official version of AMD is that this board can only be supported with VitisAI and it is not usable with VitisAI… how can it be used?
Diego will get in touch with E4 to understand how to move forward.

Status legend

:arrow_forward: Active
:fast_forward: Priority
:bangbang: Problems
:parking: Postponed or Blocked by others
:white_check_mark: Completed

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- 16:00 → 16:15
  
  News and setup 15m
  
  Speaker: Lucio Anderlini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
- 16:15 → 16:50
  
  Updates on development activities 35m
- 16:50 → 17:00
  
  Any other business 10m

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