<div dir="auto"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Neocortex Updates</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:neocortex-updates@psc.edu">neocortex-updates@psc.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 11:06 AM<br>Subject: [Neocortex] Friendly reminder: Neocortex Spring 2023 Call for Proposals – Apply by April 12th<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:neocortex-updates@psc.edu">neocortex-updates@psc.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><span id="m_-3882864012058447252gmail-docs-internal-guid-2a26a16c-7fff-a081-0074-8d658ef11252" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear researcher,</font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The AI and Big Data Team at PSC encourages all interested researchers to apply for 1-year allocations on</span><a href="https://www.cmu.edu/psc/aibd/neocortex/index.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Neocortex</span></a><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">,</span><span style="font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> by April 12th. </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Neocortex, an NSF-funded testbed system, features the specialized Cerebras WSE chip designed to accelerate AI and HPC research in pursuit of science, discovery, and societal good. Applications leveraging large natural language processing models are encouraged. Below, you can find the four types of applications of interest including non-AI areas. Access to Neocortex is offered at no-cost for open science research. </span></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.3846399999999996;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.cmu.edu/psc/aibd/neocortex/2023-03-cfp-spring-2023.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">More info and application link!</span></a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Applications of interest:</font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ML workflows leveraging models </span><span style="font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">as-is</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> from the </span><a href="https://portal.neocortex.psc.edu/docs/models_supported.html#models-in-this-repository" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cerebras Modelzoo</span></a><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> using PyTorch and TensorFlow.</span></font></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Supported models include Transformer style models such as </span><span style="font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BERT, GPT, Transformer, T5, and ViT</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. 2D UNet models are also supported with limited functionality.</span></font></p></li></ul></ol><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><ol start="2" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">ML workflows leveraging models similar to those of the Cerebras Modelzoo using PyTorch and TensorFlow.</font></span></p></li></ol><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><ol start="3" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">General purpose projects leveraging the Cerebras SDK and CSL (the Cerebras equivalent of CUDA).</font></span></p></li></ol><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><ol start="4" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Domain specific programming on structured grids leveraging the specialized </span><a href="https://dirk-netl.github.io/WSE_FE/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">WFA API</span></a><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></font></p></li></ol><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We encourage interested researchers to view the slides and recording from our </span><a href="https://www.cmu.edu/psc/aibd/neocortex/2023-02-webinar-overview-cfp-spring-2023.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">informational webinar</span></a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and review the </span><a href="https://www.cmu.edu/psc/aibd/neocortex/2023-03-cfp-spring-2023.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">call for proposals guidelines</span></a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Questions regarding </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Neocortex</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or the application process are welcomed at </span><a rel="noreferrer"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">neocortex@psc.edu</span></a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We look forward to your application!</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9871999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paola A. Buitrago</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9871999999999999;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">PI and Project Director, Neocortex</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Director of AI and Big Data, PSC</font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">P.S. </span><span style="color:rgb(67,67,67);font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We appreciate your understanding if you receive multiple copies of this message. </span></font></p></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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