Supercomputing 24 (SC24): November 2024: Day 4: Sessions

Index
Day 1: Flying
Day 2: Tutorials
Day 3: Workshops
Day 4: Sessions
Day 5: Sessions
Day 6: Georgia Aquarium
Day 7: Workshops

Supercomputing 24 (SC24)

Nov 2024: Day 4: Sessions

Rosa's Pizza.

Not the same as New York, but legit.

Crowded with both locals and tourists.

Was worth getting drenched for.

Signs of hope, sadly ignored by too many on November 5, 2024.

Inter-node communication session.

Trivial staging, CCL, GPU-aware MPI, device-device copy compared.

HPC training ecosystem is a quagmire.

Gus' World Fried Chicken.

Fried chicken is small but tasty.

The Peach Cobbler Factory a few short blocks away.

Still some hope in Atlanta.

Peach cobber with pecans was recommended.

Quite sweet but decent enough.

Sessions (panels, birds of a feather, papers, etc.) today. Some of the HPC training stuff revealed just how much of a disjointed effort the ecosystem is-- honestly not unexpected-- but the lack of clarify is what is intimidating to outsiders. Some of the performance stuff was cool tho, especially a lot of the optimization comparisons.

Lunch was a very wet walk to Rosa's Pizza, a seriously legit place adored by locals. It's not quite New York style but that doesn't matter, as it's damned good. Dinner was Gus' World Fried Chicken, which is just like the one in Los Angeles-- too-small pieces of chicken but actually pretty tasty despite the spartan ambiance of the downtown Atlanta location. The nearby Peach Cobbler Factory tries to be cute but again is a bit too spartan for its own good. I eat peach cobbler so infrequently I am not a helpful opinion on what is or is not good, but it wasn't bad? Probably not overly sweet by American (let alone Southern) standards, but definitely still sweet.