Presidency School of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing (PSAIAC), through its AI Centre of Excellence, successfully organised a three-day faculty development programme titled DGX Expert Training Programme and GI LMS Activation from 7 to 9 October 2026 at Presidency University, Bengaluru.

The programme featured expert-led sessions by Mr Yogesh Tiwari and Mr Amit Sushil Kedia, AI Engineers from Global Infoventures Pvt. Ltd. The training covered GPU computing, NVIDIA DGX infrastructure, accelerated computing, distributed AI workloads and emerging AI technologies.

Key topics included DGX server architecture and GPU configurations, GPU workload scheduling using Kubernetes, CUDA libraries such as cuDNN, cuBLAS and cuSPARSE, and multi-GPU communication using NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL). Participants were also introduced to distributed large language model (LLM) training using NVIDIA Megatron and selected NVIDIA frameworks, including MONAI and Metropolis.

The programme concluded with an introduction to the GI LMS platform, focusing on its interface and key features. Overall, the initiative aimed to strengthen faculty members’ understanding of high-performance computing infrastructure and its applications in AI research, development and teaching, while familiarising them with advanced tools and frameworks used in modern AI workloads.