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Christos Kotselidis

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Associate Professor at The University of Manchester Chief Engineer Nimble Innovation Project Lead #TornadoVM #Java #AI #GPU

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Christos Kotselidis @kotselidis.net · Jun 24

Powered by TornadoVM🚀🚀🚀

www.infoq.com/news/2025/06... GPULlama3.java Brings GPU-Accelerated LLM Inference to Pure Java - InfoQ

GPULlama3.java Brings GPU-Accelerated LLM Inference to Pure Java

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Thanos Stratikopoulos @stratika.bsky.social · 19h

The #TornadoVM team at #Devoxx!

Credits to Dimitris Doutsiopoulos for this amazing capture!

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Christos Kotselidis @kotselidis.net · 23h

Project Panama is a key component for transitioning #Java into the #AI era! @tornadovm.org has been among the early adopters of Panama. Thanks @nipafx.dev for the excellent talk @devoxx.com and the shoutout!

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TornadoVM @tornadovm.org · 1d

Behind the cameras! @kotselidis.net and @mikepapadim.bsky.social discussing with @frankdelporte.be about our technology at #Devoxx and how it can be used for fast #AI in #Java! The video is coming soon…

@devoxx.com

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Thanos Stratikopoulos @stratika.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday at the #TornadoVM deep dive, we presented #TornadoInsight - an #opensource IntelliJ plugin that helps devs learn the TornadoVM API via static analysis & dynamic inspection.

Extended in the P2Code project and coming to #MPLR2025 next week!

#Devoxx

youtu.be/WNQ5ylMs4Ok?...

TornadoVM Deep Dive: Empowering Java Developers with GPU Acceleration by Thanos Stratikopoulos, Ch

YouTube video by Devoxx

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AERO Project @aero-project.eu · 2d

The #TornadoVM team from the University of Manchester is at @devoxx.com Belgium! Don’t miss it, join them to learn more about #Java #GPU acceleration and the work done in the context of our project for the #EU hardware ecosystem!

#opensource

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Devoxx Belgium @devoxx.com · 2d

The Devoxx Belgium presentations from the first Deep Dive day are now available on each talk’s detail page and on our YouTube channel. Enjoy! 🍿👀
m.devoxx.com/events/dvbe25

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Thanos Stratikopoulos @stratika.bsky.social · 2d

My colleague @mikepapadim.bsky.social gives live #code demo with #TornadoVM at @devoxx.com !

#opensource #software #Java #AI

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Thanos Stratikopoulos @stratika.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning from #Devoxx Belgium and the @tornadovm.org team!

Our #TornadoVM deep dive talk is today at 13.30 in Room 4.

#opensource #Java #AI #GPU

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Christos Kotselidis @kotselidis.net · 6d

GPULlama3.java our first GPU-accelerated Java-native LLM inference engine with #TornadoVM has officially been integrated to LangChain4J! Congratulations to the whole team for this achievement!
Next week @devoxx.com we will showcase our demos as well as provide a deep dive on @tornadovm.org!

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Thanos Stratikopoulos @stratika.bsky.social · 6d

Java + GPUs + AI = TornadoVM

We’re speaking at #Devoxx 2025! I will be there along with @mikepapadim.bsky.social @maryxek.bsky.social and @kotselidis.net for a deep dive on #TornadoVM!

📅 Oct 6 | 13:30–16:30 | Rm 4

@eucloudedgeiot.bsky.social
@aero-project.eu

#Java #AI #GPU #opensource

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GraalVM @graalvm.org · 14d

TornadoVM Deep Dive

This session will explore how @tornadovm.org extends GraalVM to unlock GPU acceleration, covering parallelism, integration with existing tooling, and a live demo optimizing an LLM pipeline.

m.devoxx.com/events/dvbe2...

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AERO Project @aero-project.eu · 15d

Good morning from Madrid! Ready for the second day of the Open Source Community Day workshop!

Looking forward to connecting with other EU-funded #research projects working on #opensource!

@eucloudedgeiot.bsky.social

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Thanos Stratikopoulos @stratika.bsky.social · 15d

Excited to present the AERO Project today at Open Source Community Day, Madrid 🇪🇸✨
Let’s talk about open collaboration, innovation, and the future of OSS.
#AERO #OpenSource #CommunityDay

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AERO Project @aero-project.eu · 15d

Open collaboration drives progress - excited to share how AERO is helping shape the future of OSS.
#opensource #software

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InfoQ @infoq.com · 28d

Check out what’s new in the world of #Java 👉 bit.ly/3VcJkYb

JEP 517 proposed to target for JDK 26; TornadoVM; the September 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; point releases of Quarkus, Micronaut, Apache Kafka and Apache Tomcat; Grails 7.0 & Gradle 9.1; and more.

#InfoQ #JavaUpdates

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Christos Kotselidis @kotselidis.net · Sep 5

#GPULlama3.java keeps improving with larger model coverage, cross platform support, performance improvements and soon #LangChain4J integration! Stay tuned!

Thanos Stratikopoulos @stratika.bsky.social · Sep 5

New #GPULlama3.java release, bringing expanded model support, cross-platform GPU inference, and upcoming #LangChain4j integration.

Demo is preparing for @devoxx.com: lnkd.in/dfbV_tSU

Checkout the release 👉 github.com/beehive-lab/...

#opensource #Java #AI #TornadoVM

@aero-project.eu

Release v0.2.0 · beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java

Model Support Mistral – support for GGUF-format Mistral models with optimized GPU execution. Qwen2.5 – GGUF-format Qwen2.5 models supported, including performance improvements for attention layers...

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Adam Bien @adambien.blog · Aug 21

"Java, LangChain4J and Enterprise LLMs"--an airhacks.fm podcast conversation with @agoncal.bsky.social is ready to listen 👉 adambien.blog/roller/java_... #java #podcast #langchain #ai

airhacks.fm podcast

podcast with adam bien

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Christos Kotselidis @kotselidis.net · Aug 17

Checkout the latest podcast from @mikepapadim.bsky.social on GPULlama3.java; our latest #Java #AI inference framework accelerated with @tornadovm.org!

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Stephan Janssen @stephanjanssen.be · Aug 6

#Devoxx Belgium 2025 : Java + AI + Agents

I'm convinced this is the biggest European AI conference using Java 🔥
#Devoxx #AI #Java #Agents

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Christos Kotselidis @kotselidis.net · Aug 6

Super excited to give a deep dive talk on @devoxx.com 2025!

We will give a deep dive presentation on the internals of @tornadovm.org and explain how #Java developers can harness the power of #GPUs!

See you all in Belgium at fall!

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AERO Project @aero-project.eu · Jul 11

Huge congratulations to the Sednai team for their groundbreaking work on GPU-accelerated vector search with pgvector, showcased at Swiss PGDay! 👏

Slides:
👉https://www.pgday.ch/common/slides/2025_KREFL_SwissPGday2025_final.pdf

#PostgreSQL #GPU #OpenSource

@eucloudedgeiot.bsky.social

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TornadoVM @tornadovm.org · Jul 10

Docker images now available for TornadoVM v1.1.1!

See here how to run:
👉https://github.com/beehive-lab/docker-tornadovm

These images support #NVIDIA #GPUs or #Intel #GPUs, making it easier than ever to get started with heterogeneous computing using #TornadoVM.

#containers #Java #acceleration

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TornadoVM @tornadovm.org · Jul 7

New TornadoVM release v1.1.1!

Packed with new features and optimizations that unlock GPU acceleration for Llama3 in pure Java!

🧬JIT-compiled kernels for high performance.
👏 Thanks to our amazing contributors.

👉 github.com/beehive-lab/...

#opensource #AI #LLM #Java #TornadoVM

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Adam Bien @adambien.blog · Jul 6

☕️🎙️"TornadoVM: The Need for GPU Speed"--an airhacks.fm podcast conversation with Michalis Papadimitriou is ready to listen 👉
adambien.blog/roller/torna... #podcast #java #tornadovm

airhacks.fm podcast

podcast with adam bien

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Association for Computing Machinery @acm.org · Jul 2

📈 ACM Open: Fast Facts

Did you know #OpenAccess articles published in the Digital Library receive 2-3x more downloads?

Help your researchers achieve the reach they deserve.

Learn more about #ACMOpen: bit.ly/46pctGj
#Computing

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