Talks and presentations

KempnerForge: Making Foundation-model Training Reliable on Shared Clusters

June 09, 2026

Lightning talk, Harvard Research Computing and Data (RCD) Summit 2026, Cambridge, MA, USA

An introduction to KempnerForge, an open-source, PyTorch-native framework for fault-tolerant distributed training of foundation models on shared AI clusters, developed by the Research Engineering Team at the Kempner Institute.

Large Language Model Distributed Inference

March 26, 2026

Workshop, Kempner Institute, Harvard University, Virtual

A hands-on workshop on serving large language models across multiple GPUs and nodes with vLLM, covering PagedAttention, continuous batching, and tensor and pipeline parallelism, with labs on the Kempner HPC cluster.

Conference Proceeding talk 3 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

March 01, 2014

Conference proceedings talk, Testing Institute of America 2014 Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Talk 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

March 01, 2012

Talk, UC San Francisco, Department of Testing, San Francisco, CA, USA

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