Thanos Stratikopoulos

Thanos Stratikopoulos

TornadoVM
Dr. Athanasios Stratikopoulos (male) is a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester with specialization on heterogeneous architectures and reconfigurable accelerators. He has authored more than 20 research articles in the field of hardware acceleration, system software and programming languages. Currently his work involves heterogeneous architectures ranging from low-power devices to high-end cloud deployments. He is one of the lead developers of TornadoVM and has been part of the team for the last eight years. In addition to his core contributions to the system's technical development, Dr. Stratikopoulos leads the project's communication and dissemination efforts, helping to articulate its goals and advancements to both academic and industrial audiences through talks, documentation, and outreach activities.
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Thanos Stratikopoulos
Thanos Stratikopoulos
TornadoVM
Michalis Papadimitriou
Michalis Papadimitriou
Neo4j
Orion Papadakis
Orion Papadakis
TornadoVM

Building LLM Inference Engines in Java with TornadoVM and the NVIDIA Ecosystem

The session shows how Java can run GPU-accelerated local LLMs natively with TornadoVM, using NVIDIA libraries without JNI. It covers GPULlama3.java, quantized inference, Quarkus and LangChain4J integr...
Java Language & Platform Java Language & Platform Conference 50 min. INTERMEDIATE
Thanos Stratikopoulos
Thanos Stratikopoulos
TornadoVM
Christos Kotselidis
Christos Kotselidis
University of Manchester
Mary Xekalaki
Mary Xekalaki
University of Manchester

From Install to Insight: A Hands-On GPU Lab for Java Developers

Hands-on lab to set up a local GPU-backed LLM in Java using GPULlama3.java, TornadoVM, and DevoxxGenie. Participants install, configure, run, profile, and debug GPU acceleration with TornadoInsight, T...
Java Language & Platform Java Language & Platform Hands-on Lab 120 min. BEGINNER
Thanos Stratikopoulos
Thanos Stratikopoulos
TornadoVM
Michalis Papadimitriou
Michalis Papadimitriou
Neo4j
Mary Xekalaki
Mary Xekalaki
University of Manchester

Tap into the NVIDIA Ecosystem from Java with TornadoVM's Hybrid API

TornadoVM’s Hybrid API lets Java developers combine GPU kernels written in Java with direct access to NVIDIA libraries like CUDA, cuBLAS, and cuFFT—without JNI. The session shows how to build high-per...
Agentic Engineering & Tooling Agentic Engineering & Tooling Tools-in-Action 30 min. INTERMEDIATE