Month: April 2025

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Training on High Performance Computing Held at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering

On April 14, 2025, a training session titled “Introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC)” was held at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro. The event gathered faculty members and young researchers from various scientific fields.

The training was led by Dr. Milutin Radonjić, NCC Montenegro team member, who introduced participants to the fundamental concepts of high performance computing, including HPC architectures, supercomputer components, and current applications across science, engineering, healthcare, and finance.

NCC team organized a training session at the Faculty for Electrical Engineering

Key topics included:

  • The historical development of HPC – from early mainframes to modern exascale systems,
  • The architecture of supercomputers, including CPUs, GPUs, interconnects, and memory,
  • Challenges in scalability, energy efficiency, and data security,
  • Opportunities to access HPC resources through the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking initiatives, including systems such as LUMI, Leonardo, MareNostrum 5, and others.

Participants were also introduced to services of National Competence Centre for HPC, and were guided through application procedures for EuroHPC Development, Benchmark, and Regular Access Calls.

This training represents an important step toward integrating HPC into local research initiatives and strengthening collaboration with the European supercomputing ecosystem.

Introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC)

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Upcoming NVidia Bootcamps in EuroCC2 & EuroCC4SEE

Want to learn how to use artificial intelligence in scientific research? Or how to write efficient parallel code for computations on multiple graphical accelerators?

Join one of the upcoming NVIDIA bootcamps – fully online, free of charge, and led by experts from the field. Registration capacity is limited – don’t wait too long!

AI for Science Bootcamp (27-28 May 2025)

  • Learn how to use tools like PyTorch, NVIDIA Modulus, and NeMo to tackle scientific problems using artificial intelligence.
  • Link: https://lnkd.in/e7h7n-52
Training on AI for Science (source EuroCC2 & EuroCC4SEE)

Multi-GPU Programming Bootcamp (17-18 June 2025)

  • Interested in performance scaling and parallel programming across multiple graphical accelerators? This course will walk you through writing efficient multi-GPU code using libraries such as NCCL and NVSHMEM.
  • Link: https://lnkd.in/ekPSGCRg
Training on Multi-GPU programming (source EuroCC2 & EuroCC4SEE)
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Fain Tech Startup Launches Advanced Research Using HPC Resources

Fain Tech, a startup specializing in computer vision, with the support of the NCC Montenegro team, which is implementing the EuroCC2/EuroCC4SEE project, has successfully gained access to Leonardo BOOSTER HPC resources for a period of three months through the EuroHPC Benchmark public call. This access will support research on the Enfield: European Lighthouse to Manifest Trustworthy and Green AI project, aimed at developing advanced models for defect detection on PCBs.

Another SME to utilise European HPC resources

With these resources, the team will focus on optimizing neural networks to create solutions that perform effectively even with limited data, minimizing the risk of overfitting. The team will demonstrate their capability to effectively use advanced computing resources, contributing to the development of reliable and sustainable technologies in industrial processes.

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EuroHPC JU: Big announcement for Europe’s AI Ecosystem!

Yesterday, the European Commission presented an AI Continent Action Plan to make Europe a global leader in Artificial Intelligence! As part of this, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is helping to build a large-scale AI data and computing infrastructure (source EuroHPC JU).

EuroHPC AI Factories Ecosystem (image: EuroHPC JU)

The AI Factories Portal is LIVE!
The brand new AI Factories Portal is now open! Explore each selected AI Factory, see what services they offer, and discover how they will help startups, researchers, and innovators across Europe [link].

New Call for AI Factory Antennas
The new call aims to expand the AI Factories network. These local hubs will extend the reach of AI Factories, providing support, services, and access to EuroHPC systems across Europe. The AI Factory Antennas will closely cooperate with selected AI Factories to strengthen the European AI ecosystem [link].

Public Consultation on AI GigaFactories
Stakeholders are invited to help shape the future of hashtag#AIinEurope by expressing interest in the next-generation AI GigaFactories!
These will enable training and deployment of massive AI models using next-level computing & data infrastructure [link].

Updated EuroHPC JU Access Policy
The EuroHPC JU access policy has just been updated to include new access modes!
Researchers, startups, and public actors are now able to select several types of access modes to all operational EuroHPC supercomputers and hashtag#AIFactories. These steps are part of the EU’s mission to ensure security by enabling trustworthy Al systems.

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EuroCC2/EuroCC4SEE project presented at Research Day 2025 @ UDG

The 13th Research Day, held on April 4, 2025, at the University of Donja Gorica (UDG), once again brought together a vibrant community of researchers, students, and professionals committed to advancing knowledge, innovation, and research.

Organized in collaboration with the Statistical Office of Montenegro – MONSTAT and the Public Opinion Research Agency – DAMAR, the event served as a dynamic platform for sharing ongoing projects and research initiatives. This year’s focus was placed on the strategic use of statistical data, interdisciplinary research approaches, digital tools and data-driven decision-making. The MONSTAT presented in-depth socio-economic analyses based on the latest Census results in Montenegro, while the DAMAR-LAB initiative showcased advanced neuromarketing research potential, using eye-tracking technologies.

Among UDG’s flagship research projects, the EUROCC2/EuroCC4SEE was featured, demonstrating the increasing relevance of HPC and AI technologies for predictive analytics, complex simulations and scenario modelling. A representative of NCC Montenegro highlighted the growing capabilities in HPC/AI-driven research excellence, industry applications, training opportunities, and key findings from the HPC4SME market study.

Events like this strengthen collaboration between academia, industry, and public institutions, laying the foundation for smarter and sustainable ecosystem of research, development, and innovation.

https://www.cdm.me/drustvo/povodom-dana-studenata-udg-monstat-i-damar-organizuju-trinaesti-dan-istrazivanja

https://www.gov.me/clanak/obiljezen-dan-istrazivanja-2025

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Workshop on High Performance Computing at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering

On Monday, April 14, the workshop “Introduction to High Performance Computing” will be held at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Podgorica, in Room 348, starting at 12:30 p.m.

Workshop on HPC at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, UoM

The workshop “Introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC)” aims to provide a fundamental understanding of the concepts, architecture, and applications of HPC systems. Participants will become familiar with the basics of parallel computing, distributed environments, and the practical aspects of using supercomputers for scientific research, engineering, and processing large volumes of data. Special focus will be placed on available HPC resources in Montenegro and the opportunities to access European supercomputing infrastructures (such as EuroHPC systems). The workshop is intended for students, researchers, and professionals from various fields who wish to begin working in the area of high performance computing.

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FiveG gained access to HPC resources through the support of NCC Montenegro

Five Group company has established itself as one of the leading IT companies in Montenegro in the field of 3D design, gaming industry, application of AI/ML in various business areas, for innovative IT solutions in the field of education, military industry, etc. With the support of the NCC team of Montenegro, Five Group company submitted an application for access to HPC resources on the Leonardo supercomputer, within the Benchmark call. As a result of the successful application for the project called “Wasco AI – Custom AI Assistant Optimization via HPC”, access to the Leonard Booster partition for three months, in the amount of 3500 node-hours, was granted.

Successful submission for Benchmark call “Wasco AI”

Wasco AI is an intelligent, customized AI assistant designed for business applications. It supports multimodal interaction (text, video, images, and documents) and provides adaptive support to various industries. Through this project, benchmarking, training optimizations and fine-tuning of large language models (LLM) will be performed to ensure scalable performance, using EuroHPC resources.

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