HPC NCC Montenegro is organizing an Info Day for companies in Montenegro. The event will take place at the University of Donja Gorica (amphitheater AS) on July 2, 2021. The main goal of the event is to inform the industry community about the EuroCC project and the activities of HPC NCC Montenegro. NCC will provide a short introduction on HPC and its applications. Also, we invited representatives from FF4EuroHPC project to promote the Open Call #2 for SMEs during this event. Finally, we will inform the companies about the HPC assessment tool and invite them to participate in the survey. The agenda is provided below:
AIMHiGH Project Kick-off Meeting at UDG
New H2020 project: AIMHiGH project Kick-off meeting took place at the University of Donja Gorica on 26 June 2021. The title of the project is AI/ML Enabled by HPC for Edge Camera Devices for the Next Generation Hen Farms and it is funded as an application experiment within Horizon 2020 FF4EuroHPC project. The AIMHiGH project proposes the use of HPC and deep learning AI to create prediction models that can be deployed on the edge devices equipped with camera sensors for the use in IoT/AI solutions in the poultry sector. UDG will be providing HPC and domain expertise through NCC Montenegro and FoodHub Centre of Excellence.
2nd EuroCC and Castiel Joint Conference
On 22nd of June the second Joint Conference between Castiel (https://www.castiel-project.eu/) and EuroCC (https://www.eurocc-project.eu/) projects under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 (H2020) started and lasted until June 24th. Four representatives from HPC NCC Montenegro participated in the conference and presented highlights and current status of NCC Montenegro. During the conference the details about the collaboration and the current status of the two projects as well as highlights of all 33 national EuroCC competence centers were presented. The presentation of HPC NCC Montenegro current status and implemented activities were held by Sandra Tinaj PhD, Project Management member of the HPC NCC Montenegro team.
At the conference, during first day it was yet again strongly emphasized the importance of collaboration between the EuroCC partner countries within the development of AI, HPDA and HPC technologies in the EU within CASTIEL WP2 Competence Mapping and Networking and CASTIEL Training, Twinning, Mentoring (WP3). To boost the competitiveness of European industry and public sector the knowledge-transfer between academia and industry/public sector should be one of the primary goals of EuroCC national competence centers. This should be done through training and experience exchange. During conference, the EuroHPC JU representative presented update on EuroHPC.
During the second day CASTIEL Industrial Interaction and Business Development (WP4) as well CASTIEL Awareness Creation, the EuroCC Access and Outreach (WP5) main activities were presented. Also, during second day FF4EuroHPC Open Call 2 were presented and discussed.
The last but definitely not the least, EuroCC Project Management Team announced and discussed with other NCCs first year review of EuroCC and CASTIEL by the Project Officer which will be held on 12th to 14th of October. Conference will start with an open session, which shall present highlights and achievements of both projects. On the first and beginning of the second day, CASTIEL WPs will present their activities and then will continue with two parallel tracks where each NCC will present itself.
HPC NCC Montenegro Featured in Local News Portals
EuroCC project and HPC NCC Montenegro was featured in several local news portals such as AntenaM, CDM, PortalAnalitika. Feel free to click on images below to read the post.