October 4, 2023

October 4, 2023

Present

Geoffrey Fox, Piotr Luszczek, Wes Brewer, Gregor von Laszewski, Christine Kirkpatrick, Gregg Barrett, Murali Emani, Yuhan (Douglas) Rao

Apologies

Mallikarjun Shankar, Ying-Jung Chen

Tentative Agenda

• Any new members
• White Papers starting with energy mlcommons_data_energy_usage_paper
• Other Benchmarks, including Foundation models
• AOB

Discussion

• This description is short as Geoffrey was struggling with a frozen laptop.
• Juri rejoined our meetings withe enthusiasm
• The meeting focudssed on mlcommons_data_energy_usage_paper
• Christine noted that she received some negative comments on this topic.
• Gregg Barrettnoted that “It will change when they have to pay for it - skin-in-the-game.”
• SDSC takes about 10% the energy budget of UCSD
• Gregor noted that he had not looked at this, but this seems to be the TPUv4 paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.01433.pdf
• We discussed the analysis of power usage in the paper and agreed to check some of the numbers that looked anomalous.