| # Things to do | |
| ## CI | |
| - replace CI with constantly running GCP instance | |
| ## TODO | |
| general: | |
| - check if --jobid=$SLURM_JOB is actually needed in the slurm script - especially when doing it interactively | |
| - add alerts for loss spikes | |
| - check that my syncing script doesn't sync deleted files, should SCRATCH wipe something out that is already on the hub! | |
| - update deepspeed_to_transformers.py to require a specific version once a new version of transformers is released and then update the doc https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/bigscience/tree/master/train/tr1-13B-base#checkpoint-conversion-and-upload | |
| - see if can speed up the meg cuda kernels building | |
| https://huggingface.slack.com/archives/C01NHER1JLS/p1630520151064500?thread_ts=1630473623.060700&cid=C01NHER1JLS | |
| - since we are starting to tweak the seed, we should start logging the ranges of iteration for each seed, so that down the road we could reproduce the data. | |
| - test 1.3b with final config using tr7d as a base line: https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/bigscience/blob/cfdd69b89118a77567ee87b5a181c233fffef377/train/tr7-alibi/tr7d-1B3-modeling-alibi.slurm | |
| ## sysadmin | |
| ### conda packages | |
| currently each one of us has a copy of the same conda packages: | |
| ``` | |
| conda config --show pkgs_dirs envs_dirs and the output is: | |
| pkgs_dirs: | |
| - /gpfslocalsup/pub/anaconda-py3/2020.02/pkgs | |
| - /linkhome/rech/genhug01/uue59kq/.conda/pkgs | |
| envs_dirs: | |
| - /gpfswork/rech/six/commun/conda | |
| - /linkhome/rech/genhug01/uue59kq/.conda/envs | |
| - /gpfslocalsup/pub/anaconda-py3/2020.02/envs | |
| ``` | |
| we should aggregate them under the same dir. | |
| probably need to find out the right env var (best) or ~/.condarc (less good) and point it to the shared conda env. | |
| - also document in the getting started docs to make sure new users don't end up with ~/.conda dir which uses up their HOME dir to 100%. | |