Michalis Papadimitriou from the TornadoVM team in UNIMAN presented at Devoxx Greece 2026 the latest advancements in running large language models (LLMs) on GPUs directly from Java. TornadoVM, as part of AERO, continues to drive open-source innovation by enabling high-performance execution of Java applications on heterogeneous hardware. This presentation demonstrated how developers can build and […]

Thanos Stratikopoulos from the TornadoVM team in UNIMAN presented at OCX 2026 the journey of TornadoVM from academia to open-source success. TornadoVM is an open-source technology supported by AERO to enable Java applications to run efficiently on heterogeneous hardware accelerators in a programmer-friendly way. This presentation highlighted the evolution of TornadoVM, its growing ecosystem, and […]

On February 6, 2026, the TornadoVM team from UNIMAN presented TornadoVM at Voxxed Days CERN, hosted at CERN in Switzerland.  In this session, we introduced TornadoVM as a state-of-the-art open-source framework that enables native GPU acceleration directly from Java, allowing developers to program heterogeneous hardware while the runtime transparently handles compilation, execution, and optimization. We […]