{"id":20579,"date":"2025-08-26T16:04:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/?p=20579"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:04:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:04:46","slug":"practical-guide-llm-deployment-rag-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grnet.gr\/en\/2025\/08\/26\/practical-guide-llm-deployment-rag-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Practical Guide to LLM Deployment and RAG Systems\u201d by EuroCC Cyprus, in collaboration with EuroCC@Greece, on September 10th, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

CaSToRC<\/strong>, the National HPC Competence Center of Cyprus, announced the\u00a0 EuroCC-2 Training Event \u201cA Practical Guide to LLM Deployment and RAG Systems<\/strong>\u201d, organised in collaboration with EuroCC@Greece<\/strong>, taking place on-site and online (hybrid), on September 10th, 2025.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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Date<\/strong>: September 10th, 2025, 10:00-14:30, Cyprus time<\/p>\n

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Venue<\/strong>:\u202fThis training event is hybrid<\/strong>. Join at the Andreas Mouskos Seminar Room, The Cyprus Institute. Otherwise,\u202fplease connect to the discussion\u2019s live stream, available on\u202fZoom here<\/a> (Password: VsSCz1)<\/p>\n

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Language<\/strong>: English<\/p>\n

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Prerequisites<\/strong>: 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.<\/p>\n

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Requirements<\/strong>: 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.<\/p>\n

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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<\/a>. Generating the SSH key via Git Bash for Windows (2.5.2. Section \u2013 Option 2 on the tutorial) is recommended.<\/p>\n

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Registration Deadline: September 8th, 2025. Register <\/strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Detailed Agenda and more information about the Training event can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CaSToRC, the National HPC Competence Center of Cyprus, announced the\u00a0 EuroCC-2 Training Event \u201cA Practical Guide to LLM Deployment and RAG Systems\u201d, 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,355,490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-en","category-news-en","category-news_en-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t