Castiel2 Multi-GPU AI Train the Trainer workshop

Prerequisites

You are familiar with AI frameworks.

Schedule

The course will run across 5 days with a morning and afternoon session each day. Times in CET:

  • 📅 Dates: 30th January - 5th February, 2026

  • 🕘 Time: 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM daily

  • 🍴 Lunch Break: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Day

Session

Topic

1

Morning

Introduction to GPU architectures and Access to HPC infrastructure used

1

Afternoon

Introduction to deep learning

2

Morning

Pytorch Distributed Data Parallel

2

Afternoon

Model parallelism with Pytorch

3

Morning

Pytorch Lightning

3

Afternoon

LLM, Finetuning & HuggingFace Accelerate, Deepspeed

4

Morning

Computer Vision

4

Afternoon

MLops

5

Morning

Ray + Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

5

Afternoon

Hyperparameter tuning followed by Q&A

Who is the course for?

Scientists, engineers, and PhD students who need to scale AI models efficiently or optimize distributed training workflows.

About the course

Instructors and workshop helpers

Instructors

Workshop helpers

  • Tobias Haas, HLRS

  • Vlasta Petrovic, BSC / Castiel2

  • Sima Barzegar, BSC / Castiel2

  • Eleonora Bergamaschi, CINECA

  • … and many more

Course pages

See also

Credits