Tuning AI world models for the ASC finals

Supercomputing competition finalist in Wuxi, China. I supported the cluster setup and optimised GPU-based world-model AI to run as fast as possible on two AMD GPUs.

PROBLEM: ASC is an international student supercomputing competition. Our team had to get a cluster running and make real workloads run as fast as possible on it.
DID: Supported the team in setting up the cluster, and optimised two GPU-based world-model AI models to run as quickly as possible on two AMD GPUs.
RESULT: International finalist in Wuxi, China. [speed-up achieved]

HPC
AMD GPUs
AI models
Linux

Vele and a teammate working on a laptop beside the cluster racks, with the ASC Committee backdrop behind them. — fig. 1 On the competition floor at the ASC finals in Wuxi, working on the cluster with a teammate.

Our servers mounted in a rack on the competition floor, cabled up, with a rubber duck mascot on top. — fig. 2 Our cluster in its rack at the finals.