Week of November 3, 2025
Welcome to CCIT This Week, where we give you a rundown of news, events, tips and more. Follow us on social media for information and timely updates.
News
Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the popularity of AI by embedding hidden and malicious AI instructions in files that are unseen by the user. One of the common ways that people use AI is to have it summarize content, such as an email, a large document or a spreadsheet.
On Friday, September 26, Clemson University hosted its first High Performance Computing (HPC) Day, drawing more than 220 participants to celebrate and strengthen Clemson’s growing HPC community. The event connected undergraduate and graduate students, faculty researchers and industry partners through networking, poster sessions and collaborative discussions on the future of computing at Clemson and beyond.
Events
Register for the first workshop on running LLMs on Palmetto from CCIT Research Computing and Data group! Join the RCD group on Wednesday, November 19 at 1 p.m. for a multi-part series on essential concepts related to large language models (LLMs) and works through the common steps in an LLM inference workflow. The first workshop focuses on efficiently running LLMs, rather than on constructing, training or fine-tuning them. Throughout the sessions, participants will learn how to use the Hugging Face Transformers library to run LLMs on the Palmetto Cluster. The workshop will also cover how to use the Palmetto Cluster to run LLMs on large datasets and how to use the Palmetto Cluster to run LLMs on multiple GPUs and multiple nodes.
Learn how to foster student engagement and community in the online classroom with Clemson Online! Join Clemson Online on Wednesday, November 5 at 1:30 p.m. to learn more about the Community of Inquiry Framework, and how to increase student engagement by building learning communities in online spaces.
November Tech Tip
Follow these online holiday shopping tips to stay safe while shopping for the holidays! Before you shop online, make sure you’re staying safe: shop only from trusted sites, use strong passwords and 2FA, and avoid public wifi. Check out our full list of holiday shopping safety tips at the link below.
