Thomas Ortner
Employers on the program
- 2025–2026IBM2 talks
Appearances by year
- PyTorch Conference
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2026 | PyTorch Conference Europe 2026 | PyTorch Conference | lightning talk | Lightning Talk: Building a PyTorch‑native VLLM Plugin for IBM Spyre - Thomas Parnell, IBM Research & Thomas Ortner, IBM Research Europe - Zurich as IBM Research Europe - Zurich IBM Spyre is an AI accelerator used across IBM Z and Power systems for agentic inference in production. Today, we serve models on Spyre using upstream vLLM…Show lessIBM Spyre is an AI accelerator used across IBM Z and Power systems for agentic inference in production. Today, we serve models on Spyre using upstream vLLM together with an out-of-tree platform plugin. While the current plugin delivers crucial functionality for our business, it re-uses relatively... | |
| Oct 22, 2025 | PyTorch Conference 2025 | PyTorch Conference | poster | Poster Presentations: PyTorch Core as IBM Research Europe - Zurich A Case Study of Torch.compile-induced Timeouts in Distributed - Simon Fan & Brian Hirsh, Meta Activation Checkpoint 2: A New Graph-capture-based Activation…Show lessA Case Study of Torch.compile-induced Timeouts in Distributed - Simon Fan & Brian Hirsh, Meta Activation Checkpoint 2: A New Graph-capture-based Activation Checkpoint - Jeffrey Wan, Meta Automatic Parallelism in PyTorch - Will Constable & Francisco Massa, Meta Breaking Less: Tackling Graph Breaks... |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angela Yi | 2 | 1 | 2026 |
| Bin Bao | 2 | 1 | 2026 |
| Elias Ellison | 2 | 1 | 2026 |
| Simon Fan | 2 | 1 | 2026 |
| Thomas Parnell | 2 | 1 | 2026 |
| Tristan Rice | 2 | 1 | 2026 |
| Alban Desmaison | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Allen Wang | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Burkhard Ringlein | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Daniel Flores | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Driss Guessous | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Edward Yang | 2 | — | 2026 |
| George Gekov | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Jane Xu | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Jason Ansel | 2 | — | 2026 |
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