Welcome to the SSAIL Lab at UIUC. At SSAIL, we’re driven by a bold vision: to redefine how large-scale machine learning systems are built, optimized, and applied. On the systems side, we build efficient, effective, and easy-to-use systems that power the future of AI, from high-performance and distributed training to ultra-fast inference engines. On the machine learning side, we explore new frontiers, from model compression to vision-language models, agents, scientific AI, and beyond, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible while uncovering the principles that make it all work. What excites us most is the synergy between systems and algorithms. Every algorithmic insight drives new system breakthroughs, and every system we build opens the doors to new algorithmic capabilities. This virtuous cycle is where innovation thrives, and where SSAIL is helping shape the next generation of intelligent systems. Explore our latest blog posts to see what we’re working on.
This blog presents the background and key optimizations behind X-MoE, along with our hands-on experience scaling MoE model training on Frontier, the AMD GPU supercomputer.
August 24, 20257 minutes
