Webinars & Tutorials – video – Deic Interactive HPC

In this video we will introduce the new UCloud Courses app – a tool for hosting and managing university courses on UCloud.

Dr. Federica Lo Verso will walk you through the concept and background of the app.
You’ll get a hands-on demonstration of how to access and use the tool, explore its integration with GitHub, and hear directly from Dr. Himanshu Khandelia, who shares his experience using UCloud Courses in real teaching scenarios.

We’ll also guide you through the application process, show you the technical and financial requirements, and give you a preview of an upcoming hands-on course.

00:00 – Introduction by Dr. Federica Lo Verso
01:23 – Background: Launch of the new UCloud Courses app
04:12 – Walkthrough: Where to find the Courses app and how to use it
07:00 – Recap of the UCloud Courses app demonstration
07:56 – Walkthrough: How the GitHub repository works
10:07 – Advantages of using UCloud Courses
11:12 – Use case introduction: Dr. Himanshu Khandelia
11:58 – Testimonial: Dr. Khandelia shares his experience using UCloud Courses
14:00 – Live demo: Dr. Khandelia shows his use of Courses and GitHub integration
23:00 – Application procedure
24:21 – Necessary resources: Compute and storage
25:28 – Re-use and update existing UCloud Courses
26:20 – Financial model for support
27:12 – Outro and teaser for the upcoming hands-on course

Timestamps:

00:00 – Introduction and welcome
00:50 – Introduction to UCloud
05:27 – DeiC Interactive HPC website
06:07 – UCloud: Log in
07:06 – UCloud: HPC providers on the UCloud platform
11:08 – UCloud: Initial resource allocations in “My workspace”
12:27 – UCloud: Storage in “My workspace”
13:28 – UCloud: Resources and applications for new resource allocations
13:50 – UCloud: Completing the resource application
21:05 – UCloud: Resource pools and limits (what does it cost?)
23:05 – UCloud: Apps, the app store, applications index in UCloud docs
26:00 – UCloud: Advanced use cases and integration patterns

27:45 – UCloud: Transcriber: Intro and resource needs
30:08 – UCloud: Transcriber: Uploading files inside a project
31:20 – UCloud: Transcriber: Finding and launching Transcriber
32:00 – UCloud: Transcriber: Run Transcriber for the first time (Completing the app launch screen)
34:28 – UCloud: Transcriber: Running multiple Transcriber jobs simultaneously
35:00 – UCloud: Transcriber: Import previous Transcriber job parameters
35:35 – UCloud: Transcriber: Opening running jobs from the “Recent runs” pane
37:15 – UCloud: Transcriber: Transcriber output directories (Jobs folder)
38:26 – UCloud: Transcriber: Transcriber outputs in “Recent runs”
39:54 – UCloud: Transcriber: Output inspection and data download of zip file

41:36 – UCloud: Chat UI: Introduction
43:27 – UCloud: Chat UI: Run Chat UI for the first time (Completing the app launch screen)
48:40 – UCloud: Chat UI: First look at the Chat UI interface (disable new sign-ups and download a model)
52:36 – UCloud: Chat UI: Including documents to support Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) (i.e. supplementing the model with an additional document)
57:18 – UCloud: Chat UI: Extend the job time on any UCloud job (if needed)
58:28 – UCloud: Chat UI: Text-to-image generation (stable diffusion with a standard LLM model)
1:01:45 – UCloud: Chat UI: RAG for (best guess) document summarization (beware of model hallucinations)

1:04:45 – UCloud: Label Studio: Introduction
1:05:15 – UCloud: Label Studio: Run Label Studio for the first time (Completing the app launch screen)
1:07:55 – UCloud: Label Studio: First look at the Label Studio interface
1:09:40 – UCloud: Label Studio: Brief view of the Label Studio documentation
1:10:52 – UCloud: Label Studio: Introduction to the coming “Speech Analyser” application
1:15:45 – UCloud: Label Studio: Documentation

1:16:08 – Conclusion