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2026-05-26 | Maxwell

Goal: Onboard onto Endeavour Slurm Cluster and write proposal

Summary: Writeup official proposal and research questions for investigating the syntax of LLMs

Work sessions

In Out
19:00 22:00

Goals

  1. Hello World Slurm Jobs a. Realizing the more complex grammar could use more RAM then my 16GB mac; though I can also use streaming to decrease the max memory usage if needed

  2. Design grammar to contain relative clauses, adjectives, and adverbs

  3. Train existing Vaswani et al. Transformer on (a) Depth {0,1,2} with holdout depth {3} and (b) uniformly sample depths {0,1,2,3}

Meetings

  1. 2pm Joe Baumann Talk on "Automated AI Research Is Not Yet Trustworthy"

Summary

  1. ✅ Kicked off Hello World SLURM job using run_gpu.sbatch file from allegro-lab template Added edits to cluster-guide.docx on debugging/adding SSH key support

  2. 🟡 [not started] Design grammar to contain relative clauses, adjectives, and adverbs

  3. 🟡 [not started] Train existing Vaswani et al. Transformer on (a) Depth {0,1,2} with holdout depth {3} and (b) uniformly sample depths {0,1,2,3}

Reflection

Spent a nice time today meeting people in the lab! Great Day 1! I think now that I’ve gotten the hang of using the cluster, tomorrow’s work will be much faster!

(allegro) bash-4.4$ squeue -u $USER
             JOBID PARTITION     NAME     USER ST       TIME  NODES NODELIST(REASON)
           3609005 nlp_hipri run_gpu.     kgng  R       0:06      1 c05-02