Federated learning development has two major sources of friction: building the workflow correctly and running it efficiently at scale. New users must learn FL-specific concepts, APIs, job layouts, configuration patterns, and validation workflows before they can create a reliable experiment. Experienced users face a different challenge: repeated FL iteration still requires managing candidate jobs, code changes, runs, results, comparisons, and diagnosis.

At the infrastructure layer, scaling FL on shared HPC systems introduces additional complexity around job scheduling, study isolation, containerized execution, GPU allocation, and avoiding designs where orchestration processes unnecessarily occupy accelerator nodes.

This webinar will discuss two areas where NVIDIA FLARE can help reduce these barriers.

First, we will cover Agentic Skills for Federated Workflows. Current FLARE skills package FLARE-specific knowledge into reusable agent workflows, helping users inspect data, convert existing PyTorch code, generate jobs, validate results, and diagnose failures without first mastering the full NVFLARE API surface. We will also discuss the newly added Auto-FL skills, which extend agentic assistance into iterative experiment development by managing candidate jobs, tracking campaign state, comparing outcomes, and guiding follow-up iterations.

Second, we will cover Scaling NVFLARE on HPC Infrastructure. We will discuss how Slurm integration can evolve beyond basic sbatch submission toward a more complete execution model for shared clusters: isolated studies, Apptainer and other container backends, better lifecycle management, and resource patterns that keep GPUs assigned to training work rather than idle orchestration.

Together, these topics show how NVFLARE is evolving across the full path from development to deployment: lowering the learning curve for new users, accelerating iteration for experienced users, and improving large-scale execution on modern HPC systems.

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