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Isambard-AI workshop at the University of Exeter

The Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) is running a 1-day introductory workshop on Isambard-AI at the University of Exeter on Thursday, 11th December.

In order to take part in the workshop and gain access to the system, you must pre-register by filling in the following form by 5PM on Monday the 8th December:

Register for workshop

Warning

If you have not pre-registered you will not be able to access the system on the day.

Required pre-workshop steps

You will receive an email from [email protected] with the subject "Invitation to the University of Exeter Workshop 2025 project".

After registration and receiving the invite, you will be contacted with some steps to do before the workshop. You should follow steps 1-4 after you receive an invitation email.

You should follow the instructions for MyAccessID.

Warning

You must complete the required pre-workshop steps and set your UNIX username in advance of the workshop.

Access will not be allowed for online attendees. You must attend the workshop in person.

This workshop has been allocated a finite amount of compute time to be shared between all participants. Users must not run long-running or large-scale jobs either before or during the session.

Workshop Material

The workshop will familiarise participants with finding their way around Isambard-AI, and include two tutorials on creating a language-model chatbot and dispatching a distributed PyTorch training job on Isambard-AI.