July 26, 2023

July 26, 2023

Present

Geoffrey Fox, Piotr Luszczek, Murali Emani, Gregor von Laszewski,

Apologies

Christine Kirkpatrick, Mallikarjun Shankar,

Tentative Agenda

• Any new members
• Official Plans https://docs.google.com/document/d/1joVz0uPeGNu9CqnZo9JmkAw8nGU8wCfhZC6UjOTDxSc/edit?pli=1 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VvFx1WcxkrJNbuwbrP3lEmh-Q9LbFjlRo8zpOBsLVxw/edit#gid=0
• Future Directions: More on Foundation/Generative Models
• Using Benchmarking Data to Inform Decisions Related to Machine Learning Resource Efficiency (Continued) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gOKA8BnlJnsTAELWFSmL7Fl7kJej_UrNH-FVXbZFxGI/edit?usp=sharing
• Benchmark Carpentry https://docs.google.com/document/d/15YIlAWOBA2_xjXkTnAZmaw003Jh4eqURVZYQHhdGYdQ/edit#heading=h.fa0u4qc1plw5
• AI Readiness of MLCommons Science (Continued) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NbL-VdkrY9jzPxveOys2RCK8TdEJ7O5wgnxjAgzK-rE/edit?usp=sharing
• AOB

Meeting

• Given low (due to holidays and illness) attendence, we had a short meeting
• The activities of the Trillion Parameter Consortium could be relevant to our activities. This will meet before our next meeting and we can evaluate
• The other discussions concerned work on UNO, OSMIBench and SABATH at Virginia and UTK.
• Yuhan Rao notes the IBM and NASA collaboration on a geospatial foundation model was recently released on HuggingFace. See their news release https://research.ibm.com/blog/nasa-hugging-face-ibm