November 2022 - EuroCC Montenegro

30.11.2022.02.12.2022.

World-renowned professors and researchers gathered around “Deep Learning and HPC” training

University of Donja Gorica, EuroCC Montenegro (national competence center for supercomputers) and in cooperation with the National Center of Spain (NCC Spain) organize the course “Deep Learning and HPC”. Guest lecturers from renowned institutions such as the University of Cambridge, Universidad de Cantabria and Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, GraphCoreAI and Imperial College London, AI Clearing and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, DeepMind, Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, Max Planck Institute will be involved in the implementation of the training.

During this course students will learn how to implement deep learning models for real situations on their local machines, key mathematical concepts of deep learning, some key concepts about computer vision and natural language processing.

In the second part of the training, students will learn about high-performance computing in the development of deep learning applications, parallel computing using the Python language on multiple CPUs or GPUs, and the pyTorch library for developing deep learning models. The course starts with guest lectures at the end of November so you need to express your interest as soon as possible. The course is followed by students of the Master AI program at UDG, but also by students of other programs who express an interest in it. Lectures are open to academia, industry and the public sector.

Recommended prerequisites for successfully attending lectures are: good knowledge of algorithms and mathematics, knowledge of at least one programming language (Python is preferred), basic knowledge of high-performance computing (HPC), basic knowledge and interest in artificial intelligence, knowledge of the English language.

Media about us:

https://www.portalanalitika.me/clanak/svjetski-priznati-profesori-i-istrazivaci-okupljeni-oko-teme-duboko-ucenje-i-hpc-u-okviru-ncc-na-udg

https://www.cdm.me/drustvo/svjetski-priznati-profesori-i-istrazivaci-okupljeni-oko-teme-duboko-ucenje-i-hpc-u-okviru-ncc-na-udg/

30.11.2022.02.12.2022.

Meeting with NCC Luxembourg

HPC NCC Montenegro representatives Sanja Nikolic and Luka Filipovic organized initial meeting with colleagues from NCC Luxembourg (representatives of Luxinnovation – National Innovation Agency; LuxProvide – in charge of long-term operations of national supercomputer – MeluXina, and University of Luxembourg – providing HPC educational programs and training courses) and discussed cooperation possibilities and best practices sharing in the areas of industry engagement, MeluXina features/access opportunities and training programs.

With regard to industry cooperation, colleagues from NCC Luxemburg shared their experience and expertise related to business users engagement and MeluXina onboarding process, focusing on HPC needs and benefits, compute-intensive workloads, industry-centric use cases and business cases, supported by dedicated sales & engineering teams. Petascale supercomputer, MeluXina is enabling leading research (non-commercial access through Euro HPC Access Calls) and industrial applications (65% of dedicated resources), with very high security and data protection standards highly appreciated by their commercial users. University of Luxemburg is organizing HPC School and HPC-related Master and Doctoral programs, covering various training needs from beginners access to advanced lectures, on its own and MeluXina supercomputing infrastructure. They also successfully manage HPC community of around 1000 users/ 200 newcomers per year.

NCC Montenegro representatives provided short introduction on main activities and achievements. Based on productive meeting, industry potential discussion and elaborated skills development programs, NCC teams agree on further alignment on HPC+ Topics & Trainings of joint interest, in the context of EuroCC2 plans and 2023 roadmap.

29.11.2022.21.04.2023.

The way is open to building a EuroHPC world-class supercomputer in Greece

A hosting agreement has been signed between the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and the National Infrastructures for Research and Technology (GRNET) in Greece where DAEDALUS, a new EuroHPC supercomputer will be located. University of Donja Gorica is one of the partners in the implementation of the project.

Once procured, DAEDALUS will be a mid-range supercomputer, able to perform more than 30 petaflops or 30 million billion calculations per second. This new supercomputer will be managed and operated by GRNET, the National Infrastructures for Research and Technology in Greece. DAEDALUS will be installed in the historical 19th century Electric Power Station building in Lavrion Technological and Cultural Park and is expected to have an overall surface area of 1500 m2.

The supercomputer will power new applications in a wide range of areas, such as engineering, chemistry, health sciences and will be used to visualise and solve scientific problems. It will advance science and boost the innovation potential of enterprises while improving the European citizens’ quality of life.

DAEDALUS, at a total acquisition cost of EUR 33 million, will be co-funded with a maximum total budget of up to EUR 10 million by the EuroHPC JU (35%) and Greece (65% of national funds). Cyprus, Montenegro and North Macedonia are also involved in the project as members of the DAEDALUS consortium. This partnership is strategic for the European Union as it will support science and technology in the wider area of South-East Europe.

DAEDALUS Partners:

GRNET – National Infrastructures for Research and Technology, Greece Owner, operator, manager, coordinator
The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus: Participation in high-level support team
University of Donja Gorica, Montenegro: Participation in high-level support team
Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje Participation in high-level support team

Links for more details:

26.11.2022.06.01.2023.

A scientific paper at IEEE ACIT 2022 conference

Researchers from UDG and NCC Montenegro presented a scientific paper at the 2022 International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT). The conference took place at the Al Ain University – Abu Dhabi Campus on November 22-24, 2022. The paper “Overcoming Limitations of Statistical Methods with Artificial Neural Networks” was authored by M. Grebovic, L. Filipovic, I. Katnic, M. Vukotic, and T. Popovic. More information about the conference is available here. The paper is available at IEEE Xplore at the following link.

ABSTRACT – Traditional statistical models as tools for summarizing patterns and regularities in observed data can be used for making predictions. However, statistical prediction models contain small number of important predictors, which means limited informative capability. Also, predictive statistical models that provide some type of pseudo-correct regular statistical patterns, are used without previous understanding of the used data causality. Machine Learning (ML) algorithms as area in Artificial Intelligence (AI) provide the ability to interpret and understand data in more sophisticated way. Artificial Neural Networks as kind of ML methods use non-linear algorithms, considering links and associations between parameters, while statistical use one-step-ahead linear processes to improve only short-term prediction’s accuracy by minimizing cost function. Disregarding that designing an optimal artificial neural network is very complex process, they are considered as potential solution for overcoming main flaws of statistical prediction models. However, they will not automatically improve predictions accuracy, so several artificial neural networks and traditional statistical methods are evaluated and analyzed through accuracy measures for prediction purposes in various fields of applications. Based on gained results, couple of techniques for improving artificial neural networks are proposed to get better accuracy results than statistical predictive methods.

Click on image to open link to IEEE Xplore

25.11.2022.02.12.2022.

AIMHiGH presented at SmAgTech EXPO2022 (VIRAL)

AIMHiGH project, a FF4EuroHPC application experiment, was presented at the SmAgTech EXPO2022. Mr Stevan Cakic gave a presentation at the conference during the plenary sessions on 24 Nov 2022. AIMHIGH was also featured in the virtual EXPO platform in the Projects section.

Mr. Stevan Cakic gave a presentation of the project and its results at the conference

FF4EuroHPC Experiment presented as a HPC Use Case in Agriculture

AIMHiGH, a FF4EuroHPC application experiment was featured in the virtual EXPO platform

22.11.2022.22.11.2022.

Deep learning and HPC training event featured in the local media

Deep learning and HPC training organized by NCC Montenegro and UDG is featured in the national news portal CDM. The presentations and guest talks will be accessible to students and academia, industry, and general public. There is a very interesting line up of lecturers coming from reputable institutions from the region and abroad. More information about the training is available here. Click on the image below to open the post at the CDM news portal.

22.11.2022.22.11.2022.

AIMHiGH Application Experiment Featured by FF4EuroHPC at the SC22

The AIMHiGH project, a FF4EuroHPC application experiment for development of computer vision solutions for smart poultry farms, can be seen in the background at the SC22 (#SC22) exhibition booth for FF4EuroHPC during the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Storage and Analysis (Dallas, Texas). AIMHiGH was featured as one of the success stories of the FF4EuroHPC project. Learn more about the FF4EuroHPC project and check out the success stories at the following link.