National Competence Centre for High-Performance Computing
An event “STEMpower” was held at the University of Donja Gorica (UDG) as part of the “Days of Science and Innovation” Festival. Students from high schools from Podgorica, Bar and Pljevlja had the opportunity to listen to interesting lectures about supercomputers, artificial intelligence and machine learning and to visit the laboratories of the UDG.
NCC Montenegro representative Luka Filipovic gave a presentation on Romanian HPC event “HPC and Al Technologies: Accelerating Innovation through collaboration”. Luka spoke on “Empowering Breakthroughs through HPC Collaboration” panel and gave presentation about NCC activities and Montenegrin success stories.
NCC Montenegro representative Ms Sanja Nikolic gave a presentation for to the undergraduate students of Facullty for Information Systems and Technogies, within the scope of Science and Innovation Days@UDG. The presentation covered the following topics:
EuroCC powered Master program in Artifitial Intelligence and HPC related training courses were also presented, in the scope of their potential enrollment and competences development. Following the interactive discussion, students also demonstrated the interest in understanding access to supercomputing resources and performances, and challanges related to industry interraction and HPC/AI uptake by SMEs.
Representatives of NCC Montenegro attended virtual event EuroHPC JU Information Day for AI on Supercomputers held on 26 September 2023. Further topics were thoroughly elaborated and interactively discussed:
Researchers from University of Donja Gorica (UDG) and NCC Montenegro visited partners from Faculty of organizational sciences University of Belgrade (FON UoB) during their summer school at Perast. Colleagues from FON presented their exhibition of AI generated images titled “Imagine Boka” and their activities about startups and marketing.
We presented the most interesting activities on UDG along with activities on NCC Montenegro and the EuroCC project. We spoke about possibilities of future collaboration on educational programs, training courses, digital transformation topics, AI and similar subjects.
NCC Montenegro team members and the Faculty of Information Systems and Technologies (UDG), with the support of the Innovation Fund of Montenegro as part of the program to encourage the development of innovation culture and the organization of education in the areas of expertise in Montenegro, organizes a three-month training called “AI4S3 – Application of computer vision and deep learning in agriculture and food production, medicine and energy” which will be held in the period from the beginning of October to the end of December 2023.
The purpose of education is to provide young people with high-quality education in order to acquire the relevant knowledge and skills needed for a successful career, but also to, above all, interest participants in the field of artificial intelligence and to become participants in the digital transformation of Montenegro. The education program is divided into 5 modules: Python Programming, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision, Python Libraries and Tools for Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence in S3 Areas, and final project work. In addition to the fact that participants will acquire enough knowledge and skills needed for further research in this very current field, they will have the opportunity to expand their network of acquaintances and meet young people with similar interests. The program and agenda (in Montenegrin) is available here.
Registration is open until Sep 28th ath the following link.
EuroHPC JU organizes a virtual event “Information Day on AI and Supercomputers. This three-hours virtual event will take place on September 26th, 9:30 – 12:30 CEST. The virtual event will discuss:
Interested participants can register to the event at the following link.
EuroHPC JU is a joint initiative between the EU, European countries and private partners to develop a World Class Supercomputing Ecosystem in Europe. It is jointly funded by its members with a budget of around EUR 7 billion. At the moment EuroHPC JU is operating six of the biggest and fastest supercomputers in Europe and globally, equipped with different types of GPUs and CPUs as well as other types of processors for users to use. Whether these are situated in your own country or in neighbouring countries you can access them for free.