Deployment, Experimentation, and Applications of LLMs on HPC infrastructure – Live demo on AUTH’s “Aristotelis” HPC infrastructure
The National Competency Center (NCC) on High Performance Computing (EuroCC@Greece https://eurocc-greece.gr/) and the IT Center of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki invite you to the seminar “Large Language Models (LLMs) on High Performance Computing (HPC): Deployment, Experimentation, and Applications of LLMs on HPC infrastructure”.
The seminar is addressed to members of the academic community and industry (researchers, data scientists, ML engineers, etc.) who are interested in the utilization of High Performance Computing technologies for LLMs.
The seminar will delivered online via zoom, and take place on Wednesday, April 24, 2023, 10:00 – 14:00 (Athens time). To register for the event, please fill out the participation form by April 23 at 12:00 at the following link:
Registration: https://events.grnet.gr/event/147/overview
All registered participants will be sent a reminder of the seminar on April 23 along with the zoom link to attend.
Attendance certificates will not be given out.
Agenda
— Introduction: LLMs and HPC —
- Introduction / EuroCC@Greece [15’] – Ilias Hatzakis, GRNET, EuroCC@Greece
- Introduction to AUTH’s HPC infrastructure “Aristotelis” [30’] – Paschalis Korosoglou, HPC engineer, IT AUTH
- Introduction to LLMs [15’] – Nikos Bakas, Researcher, GRNET
— Using LLMs on HPC —
- Using LLMs on “Aristotelis” HPC infrastructure: deployment, experimentation, capacity and limitations, applications [45’] – George Vlahavas, Researcher, AUTH
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- European supercomputers and LLMs: a match made in heaven? [30’], Simeon Harrison, Trainer at EuroCC Austria
- Deploying Generative AI Responsively [15’] – Stergios Tegos, CEO at Εnchatted.com
- Developing an LLM using Finish with LUMI [15’] – Mats Sjöberg, EuroCC Finland
— LLMs use cases, challenges, limitations —
- ChatGPT API: introduction, usage, example, live demo [20’] – Nikos Bakas, Researcher, GRNET
- LLMs for political speech analysis (Greek national elections 2023) [20’] – Pavlos Sermpezis, Researcher, AUTH
- Metaphor Identification and Interpretation in Natural Language Processing [20’] – Vivian Pavlopoulou, Researcher, School of Philology, AUTH
— Closing —
- Questions / Open discussion [15’]