AI_INFN Technical Meeting

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AI_INFN Technical meeting – Minutes and actions

Date: 2025-03-03

Operations

  • NTR

Tracked developments:

:arrow_forward: 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.

:arrow_forward: 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.

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

  • NTR

:arrow_forward: 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.

:arrow_forward: 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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