CHPC's Kai Ebira, Martin Cuma awarded Best Poster distinction at RMACC HPC Symposium 2025

Kai Ebira, a student employee of the Center for High Performance Computing working with Martin Cuma, received the distinction of Best Poster at the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC) HPC Symposium (Boulder, CO; May 20–22, 2025).

Photo: Kai Ebira stands with his poster at the RMACC HPC Symposium.

Kai Ebira works with Martin Cuma, a Scientific Consultant at the CHPC, on the development of a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system that leverages CHPC infrastructure and hardware to answer queries about the CHPC's documentation. Their system ingests web documentation—scraped from the CHPC website—into a vector database with semantic embeddings. It then accepts queries from users in a web interface, which communicates with an API server on a compute node hosted at the CHPC to run a RAG pipeline. The system provides rapid, contextually relevant answers grounded in official documentation, which has the potential to reduce the time users spend searching for answers and ease the load of support staff.

In the future, Kai hopes to enhance the user interface, develop integration with Open OnDemand, and introduce a systematic evaluation framework.

For more information about the project, please see the poster from the HPC Symposium.