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Webinar 2026 From Hallucination to Grounded Answers: An Introduction to Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Syam — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:08:26 GMT

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Large language models can generate remarkably fluent answers, but they may also produce convincing misinformation or fabricate facts, especially when asked about documents they have never seen. For researchers, students, and professionals, an unsupported answer is often worse than no answer at all. This seminar introduces Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), a practical approach that combines large language models with information retrieval to produce answers grounded in trusted sources rather than the model's memory. Through live demonstrations, we will show how RAG answers questions over local documents and research papers — and how the same pipeline extends to web pages and other sources. We will introduce the core ideas behind RAG (document chunking, embeddings, vector databases, and semantic retrieval), and discuss when RAG is the right tool compared with alternatives. The goal: turn a confident guesser into a research tool you can trust — and check.

General Interest Seminars

Syam — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:07:08 GMT

Round 13 (Starting October 2025)

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Webinar 2026 Running AMD GPUs and APUs on Alliance clusters

Syam — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:49:48 GMT

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While the Alliance has been using NVIDIA GPUs almost exclusively in the last few years, we do have a small test installation of AMD GPU and APU accelerators and may acquire more in the future. This seminar will focus on the AMD MI300As available on the Nibi cluster, which are APUs combining GPU and CPU components with unified memory. The seminar will also discuss the software packages for AMD accelerators (in particular AMD's ROCm/HIP stack as the analog to NVIDIA's CUDA) and how these can be installed on Alliance clusters.

General Interest Seminars

Syam — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:49:09 GMT

Round 13 (Starting October 2025)

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