On 5 November, the Best Performer Awards 2024/25, the Roland Mittermeir Prize 2024 and, for the first time, the Dissertation Prize 2024/25 were presented at the University meets Industry: Talents for Carinthia event.
The GPU4U project initiated by AICS and ITEC (PI: J. Wachter & Mathias Lux) is being launched as a pilot within the DHInfra.at infrastructure initiative. DHInfra.at is developing a national Machine Learning infrastructure primarily for Digital Humanities, with CLARIAH partners and DH research projects receiving priority access. GPU4U serves as an exploratory pilot to understand how computational resources might be utilized by a broader student community, while the infrastructure’s core mission remains focused on Digital Humanities research.
Addressing the GPU Access Gap for Students
As part of this pilot exploration, GPU4U is granted access to computational resources for select student projects. The following three use cases will be evaluated as the infrastructure is being set up:
Use Case 1: Supporting Resource-Intensive Student Projects: One workshop per semester where students from various faculties can present project ideas and apply for limited resource allocation. Approximately five selected projects per semester may receive temporary access to the DHInfra cluster (featuring 12x H200 GPUs and multiple L40s) for tasks such as LLM fine-tuning, VR simulations, or other computational workloads.
Use Case 2: Limited LLM Inference Access for Educational Purposes: One GPU may be allocated to provide controlled access to LLM inference (via Ollama and various models) through an API for specific educational use cases. This would enable experimentation with prompting strategies, context size, temperature, and other parameters within structured learning environments. The inference could be integrated into select courses, such as a pilot “Introduction to Databases” course, to explore how such tools might support learning in non-technical disciplines.
Use Case 3: Experimental VR-Based Teaching Support: This use case explores the potential for VR in teaching through streaming solutions, particularly in Game Studies and Engineering contexts, which could reduce dependency on individual high-performance workstations. Implementation would depend on local infrastructure availability, such as VR headset access, and remains subject to further evaluation.
PI: Jasmin Wachter (AICS) & Mathias Lux (ITEC)
Further Reading: https://www.dhinfra.at/
https://www.dhinfra.at/2025-09-09-gpu4u-pilot-use-case/
The 1st International Summer School 2025 on Bilateral AI held from July 7 to July 11, 2025 at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria, started today!
The program of the school comprises 24 hours of advanced lectures and practical sessions, providing a comprehensive introduction to the field of bilateral Artificial Intelligence, comprising symbolic and subsymbolic AI. The school was organized by the Training Unit of the Cluster of Excellence Bilateral AI, funded by Austrian Science Fund (FWF), that brings together leading researchers from six top Austrian universities and institutions.
The Summer School is co-located with AIRoV – the Austrian Symposium on AI, Robotics, and Vision – which starts tomorrow and the students have the opportunity to partially attend.
We are looking forward to an informative and exciting week!
Peter Kaiser dankte den Kärntner Kunst- und Kulturschaffenden für ihre „fast seismographische, kritische Reflexion der politischen und gesellschaftlichen Vorgänge im Land und darüber hinaus“. Die Kulturpreisverleihungen sollen auch Anerkennung für das vielfältige Wirken im Kulturland Kärnten sein. Neben Patrick Rodler konnten sich auch Josef Winkler, Cristina Beretta und Franz Hartlieb über den begehrten Kulturpreis des Landes Kärnten freuen.
Patrick Rodler, geboren 1984 in Klagenfurt, ist Privatdozent am Institut für Artificial Intelligence und Cybersecurity an der Universität Klagenfurt. Er studierte Technische Mathematik und Angewandte Informatik und promovierte in Informatik, jeweils mit Bestnoten (summa cum laude). 2023 habilitierte er sich in Informatik mit dem Schwerpunkt Künstliche Intelligenz. Seine Forschungsinteressen umfassen die Qualitätssicherung und Fehlerbehebung in Systemen wie Software, Hardware, Datenbanken, Robotern oder Fahrzeugen, die Lösung von Such- und Planungsproblemen, die computerbasierte Wissensdarstellung und -verarbeitung sowie maschinelles Lernen. Neben Auszeichnungen für seine Master- und Doktorarbeit erhielt er einen Preis für exzellente Lehre der Universität Klagenfurt. Im vergangenen Jahr war er auf allen internationalen Top-Konferenzen im Bereich Künstliche Intelligenz eingeladen, um seine Arbeiten zu präsentieren.
Insgesamt wurden im Dezember 2024 13 Preise mit einer Gesamtdotierung von 91.000 Euro wurden vergeben. Das Land Kärnten folgte damit den Empfehlungen des Kärntner Kulturgremiums. Die Preisverleihung fand am 13. Dezember 2024 in der Carinthischen Musikakademie Ossiach statt.
Foto Copyright: LPD Kärnten/LH Peter Kaiser mit allen Kultur Preisträger-innen 2024
