Teach

A hands-on workshop for running local LLMs on NAIRR's free cloud computing. Student setup guides, instructor playbooks, and everything in between.

NAIRR Workshop

Faculty want to teach AI and increasingly need GPU compute to do it. National infrastructure exists and it's free to them. Almost nobody uses it, because nobody has walked the path in front of them. So we walked it, wrote down every wall we hit, and turned it into this workshop. Start at the top and follow it in order. By the end your students are running their own models on NAIRR.

Start Here

Resource Map

Track A

Create Your ACCESS ID

What This Demo Is Doing

Run the Local LLM Notebook

Notebook 04: Local LLM Frameworks

Track B

Set Up an AI Coding Assistant

AI Agents

Intro to AI Agents with Hermes

Toolkit

Request a Start-Up Allocation

Instructor Playbook

Instructor Pre-Flight Checklist

Instructor Notes

Notebook Ideas

External Resources for Instructors