Join us onsite at SFU with Lenovo’s AI Chief Data Scientist, David Ellison and your HPC/AI Senior Architect, Duncan Furniss. In this session we will cover how Lenovo created an on-prem Large Language Model (LLM) that can answer questions on company product lines and initiatives.

• We will then extend this work by showing how we have developed a Reference Architecture that can be used to create your own cluster that can run LLMs.

• We will briefly discuss GPUs available for LLMs and general workloads.

• Finally we will demonstrate software that makes it easy to train your own AI models on a cluster from Large Language Models to simple Jupyter Notebooks.

The talk will be held in the SFU Big Data Hub Theatre (ASB 10900) Wednesday August 30, 2023 from 2:30PM to 4:00PM