The HPE Cray Programming Environment¶
Presenter: Kurt Lust (LUST)
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Q&A¶
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Are there plans to bump the available rocm version in the near future ?
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It is planned in summer
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But LUMI will never be on the bleeding edge. It is a small effort to do so on a workstation because it has to work only for you so you upgrade whenever you are ready. It is a big upgrade on a supercomputer as it has to work with all other software also. E.g., users relying on GPU-aware MPI would not like that feature to be broken just because some AI people want the latest ROCm to use the latest nightly PyTorch build. GPU software stacks consist of lots of libraries running on top of a driver, and you can have only one driver on the system and each driver support only a limited range of library versions. So you can see that it is hard to keep everybody happy... Basically we have to wait until it is supported in all components that are important in LUMI for all users.
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