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DateTitleLocation
2026-06-03Production Pre-Training at ScaleTPC'26 MAPE Track (Baltimore, MD)
2025-12-16AuroraGPT: Training Foundation Models on Supercomputers
2025-12-16AuroraGPT: Training Foundation Models on SupercomputersANL
2025-10-24Training Foundation Models on SupercomputersUIUC
2025-10-15Training Foundation Models on SupercomputersGeorgia Institute of Technology
2025-10-08AERIS: Argonne's Earth Systems Model2025 ALCF Hands On HPC Workshop
2025-09-24Training Foundation Models on Supercomputers2025 ALCF Hands On HPC Workshop
2025-09-02Open SkAI2025Open SkAI 2025
2025-09-02Scientific AI at Scale: AuroraGPTOpen SkAI 2025
2025-09-02Scientific AI at Scale: Distributed TrainingOpen SkAI 2025
2025-07-31AuroraGPTSIAM AN2025
2025-05-21LLMs on Aurora: Overview2025 ALCF INCITE GPU Hackathon
2025-05-07ALCF Incite Hackathon 20252025 ALCF INCITE GPU Hackathon
2025-05-07LLMs on Aurora: Hands-On2025 ALCF INCITE GPU Hackathon
2025-02-12AuroraGPT: Foundation Models for ScienceFoundation Models for the Electric Grid
2024-11-05Parallel Training MethodsAI-for-Science on Supercomputers
2024-10-30AuroraGPT: ANL's General Purpose Scientific LLM2024 ALCF Hands-on HPC Workshop
2024-10-29Deep Learning and Foundation Models at Scale2024 ALCF Hands-On HPC Workshop
2024-09-04AuroraGPTHPC User Forum, 2024
2024-08-09Training LLMs at ScaleATPESC, 2024
2024-07-17Training LLMs on PolarisCSFM Summer School 2024
2024-03-01Parallel Training TechniquesAI-4-Science Training Series
2024-02-01LLMs from ScratchLLM Tutorial Workshop
2023-11-01Creating Small(-ish) LLMsLLM Tutorial Workshop
2023-10-15Exascale Science on AuroraIntel oneAPI Workshop @ UIC
2023-10-01LLM Lunch TalkALCF Hands On HPC Workshop
2023-08-01Scaling LLMs for ScienceData-Intensive Computing + AI/ML at Scale
2023-07-31MLMC: Machine Learning Monte CarloLattice 2023 (Fermilab)
2023-07-15Generative Modeling and Efficient SamplingPASC23
2023-04-01Efficient Sampling for LGTDeep Fridays @ U. Bologna
2022-11-01Large Scale TrainingAI4Science on Supercomputers, ALCF
2022-10-01Hyperparameter ManagementALCF SDL Workshop
2022-08-01Statistical LearningATPESC 2022
2022-05-01Scientific Data Science: An Emerging SymbiosisANL
2022-03-01Machine Learning in HEPUNC Greensboro
2021-12-01Accelerated Sampling Methods for LGTDWQ @ 25, BNL
2021-09-01Training Topological Samplers for LGTML4HEP, ECT* Trento
2021-06-01l2hmc-qcdMIT Lattice Group Seminar
2021-03-01Deep Learning HMC for Improved Gauge GenerationML in LQCD Workshop
2020-06-01Machine Learning for Lattice QCDU. Iowa
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