CaSToRC, the National HPC Competence Center of Cyprus, announced the  EuroCC-2 Training Event “A Practical Guide to LLM Deployment and RAG Systems”, organised in collaboration with EuroCC@Greece, taking place on-site and online (hybrid), on September 10th, 2025.

The program will combine lectures and hands-on sessions, focusing on practical workflows for local deployment, inference, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Participants will learn how to use the Hugging Face ecosystem for transformers and embeddings, experiment with inference and semantic similarity techniques, and build retrieval-enabled applications. The hands-on part will include deploying models on Cyclone, the National HPC infrastructure, using tools such as vLLM and Haystack to set up model-serving pipelines and integrate retrieval with generation.

Date: September 10th, 2025, 10:00-14:30, Cyprus time

Venue: This training event is hybrid. Join at the Andreas Mouskos Seminar Room, The Cyprus Institute. Otherwise, please connect to the discussion’s live stream, available on Zoom here (Password: VsSCz1)

Language: English

Prerequisites: Attendees should be familiar with Python. Some previous experience with PyTorch. Hands-on exercises are part of the training and will be provided in Python.

Requirements: Attendees should bring with them their own laptop (with Administrative privileges) to follow the hands-on practical. They should make sure the following software is available on their laptops: a) a web browser and PDF viewer and b) a command line interface or other client that supports SSH.

Attendees should be able to access the machine prior to the event. Instructions on how to generate the SSH key can be found at Accessing and Navigating Cyclone Tutorial. Generating the SSH key via Git Bash for Windows (2.5.2. Section – Option 2 on the tutorial) is recommended.

Registration Deadline: September 8th, 2025. Register here.

Detailed Agenda and more information about the Training event can be found here.