Setting up the hands-on environment (local or cloud-based/ HPC), issues solving

The Greek Competence Center for HPC & AI

• Ilias Hatzakis (GRNET)

Introduction to Hugging Face Transformers, embeddings’ models, and basics of Retrieval-Augmented Generation

• Nikos Bakas (GRNET)

Using LLMs on “Aristotelis” HPC infrastructure: deployment, experimentation, capacity and limitations, applications

• George Vlahavas (AUTH)

Inference of Hugging Face’s Pre-Trained LLMs on HPC Systems

• Marco Magliulo (LuxProvide / MeluXina)

Training the Greek LLM Meltemi

• Vassilis Katsouros (Athena RC)

Wrap up / Q&A / Discussion