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IBM Training For Bede

During spring 2021 IBM are delivering a series of workshops and training sessions on N8 CIR's new high-performance computing platform, Bede. This page contains videos and copies of the slides from each of these sessions.

Session 1 - HPC

The first of the three sessions took place on Friday 12 March and was intended to offer a general overview of Bede across three key areas:

  • Hardware and Software
  • GPU Programming
  • Application Porting and Tuning


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These videos feature Ludo Enault, IBM HPC, and AI Technical Expert, covering each of these subjects in some depth.


Part 1
Hardware and Software


Part 2
GPU Programming


Part 3
Application Porting and Tuning

Session 2 - AI

The second of the sessions was focused on AI and took place on Friday 19 March. and covered:

  • OpenCE overview : What has changed compared to WMLCE?
  • How to build your customized Conda setup with OpenCE
  • Resources, ecosystem and support

These videos feature Maxime Deloche and Jean-Armand Broyelle of IBM Montpellier exploring their approach to IBM Power Systems for AI workloads.


Part 1
Running AI Workloads on IBM Power Systems


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Part 2
WML-CE & Open CE


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Part 3
Large Model Support


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If you think that Large Model Support would be useful in your research, then please contact your local Bede RSE Support. This will help us to build a community around this specialist software and help us to engage IBM to continue supporting it in future operating systems.

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