PHAROS Training Series - Course 3 "Introduction to Large Language Models at Scale"

Thursday, 18 December 2025 - 10:00


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
18 Dec 2025
AM
10:00 High Performance Computing for AI models - Nikos Bakas (GRNET)   ()
10:15 The AI Factory access modes of EuroHPC-JU - Nikos Bakas (GRNET)   ()
10:25 Introduction to LLMs - Giorgos Filandrianos (NTUA) Maria Lymperaiou (NTUA)   ()
10:45 Building Greek Large Language Models: Meltemi & Krikri - Eleni Batsi (ATHENA RC)   ()
11:05 Fine Tune LLMs on a Single GPU (hands-on) - Nikos Bakas (GRNET)   ()
PM
12:35 --- Break ---
12:50 Scalability of LLMs & Emergent abilities - Maria Lymperaiou (NTUA) Giorgos Filandrianos (NTUA)   ()
13:10 Fine Tune LLMs on an HPC node with multiple GPUs (code presentation) - Nikos Bakas (GRNET)   ()
13:30 Scalability results of finetuning: Performance, Efficiency, Convergence and Generalization - Panagiota Gyftou (GRNET)   ()
13:50 Open Discussion and Q&A   ()