National Competence Centre for High-Performance Computing
Parallel computing course organized by NCC Montenegro and UDG was featured in the local media portals. The course lasts 6 weeks and it was open for students and academia, industry and public sector. There is around 50 trainees enrolled, among them the students of the Master’s program Artificial Intelligence from the Faculty of Information Systems.
The Parallel Programming course has begun at the University of Donja Gorica, with more than 50 registered participants, organized as part of EuroCC project activities focused on the development of HPC and parallel programming skills and competencies.
In front of National Competence Center for High Performance Computing (HPC NCC), mr Sanja Nikolić introduced the course participants to supercomputer systems and applications, especially from the aspect of their commercial application and digital transformation of business models towards innovative processes and products to improve industrial competitiveness. She also presented the EuroHPC Joint Undertakingthe , whith budget of € 7 bn for the improvement of the HPC ecosystem in Europe through the Digital Europe and Horizon Europe programs, and through projects such as EURO CC, which focus is on the development of National Competence Centers in the field of high-performance computing, as reference point for coordination of all national HPC activities and access to Eurpean supercomputing resources. The activities of NCC Montenegro were also presented, focusing on HPC/HPDA/AI research and development, competence mapping, education and trainings, as well as on examples of successful cooperation with representatives of industry, academia and public sector resulted in HPC-advanced business practices.
Assistant professor dr Luka Filipović instructed attendees in the technical aspects and configuration of the HPC systems, parallel and distributed computer systems and presented in detail the plan of the theoretical and practical part of the parallel programming course intended for high-performance computing. Within the course program, lasting 6 weeks, the concepts of parallel computers, their purpose, architecture, division, guidelines for the development of parallel programs, as well as the analysis of the performance of parallel programs will be duly explained. In the practical part, the development of parallel programs based on the architecture of shared and distributed memory and based on the hybrid model will be demonstrated by respective examples. The lectures will be held in cooperation with colleagues from the HPC National Competence Center of Germany.
The Parallel Programming course is attended by representatives of the industrial sector and interested students of regular, master and doctoral studies of all universities, who will receive a corresponding certificate upon successful completion. Students of the Master’s program Artificial Intelligence from the Faculty of Information Systems, UDG will present their seminar papers at the end of the course.
As the first year of the new Master program in Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty for Information Systems and Technologies, University of Donja Gorica, is behind us a second generation has been enrolled. They will be attending courses on Mathematics, Data science, Digital transformation, Advanced programming, History of ideas, Research methodology.
Our first generation students worked hard both in theoretical and practical aspects of the curriculum. Some of the students took part in research projects and some have already presented their first papers at scientific-technical conferences. This year the will be attending Deep Learning and Parallel Computing courses that will be implemented with the support of NCC Montenegro and partners from EuroCC.
Workshop on AI/ML applications by Hugging Face company! Johannes Colbe presenting Hugging Face company, vision, and community took place on November 2nd. The presentation and workshop discussed some practical aspects on how to collaboratively create ML models and use Open Source tools. Mr Stevan Čakić from NCC Montenegro is moderated the workshop. The presentation is attended by several students and representatives of academia and industry from Montenegro.
This project aims to develop effective software for decision-making support, i.e. to facilitate the business process of entities in the food business in our country, as well as competent authorities, and from the aspect of support and more effective strengthening and ensuring of food safety and research of disease outbreaks.
Researchers from the FoodHub CoE and HPC NCC Montenegro work on the FoodDecide project to identify the most important data necessary for software development such as visualisation of the food value chain.
Within the Next Castiel training, a member of NCC Montenegro, Ass. professor Armin Alibasic will take part with the topic, “How to engage younger students, including high schools, on HPC”. Through the training, Armin will bring to the attention of all the methods and techniques used by NCC Montenegro, to bring a topic that was almost unknown to the general public, especially to young people, and develop certain knowledge and skills in them.
HPC NCC Montenegro representatives Luka Filipovic and Sanja Nikolic organized initial meeting with colleagues from NCC Turkey and exchanged experience and learnings on dissemination strategies, industry collaboration and training activities.
Turkish Academic Network and Information Centre (TUBITAK ULAKBIM), as lead beneficiary, is responsible for the management of NCC Turkey. As the Third-Parties of NCC Turkey, Middle East Technical University, Sabancı University, and Istanbul Technical University National Center for High-Performance Computing (UHeM) share their HPC and domain expertise through the dedicated training events, schools, and consultancies.
The NCC has organized wide range of events (>60 events with >11.000 participants) that strengthen the HPC environment by emphasizing the benefits of HPC-related technologies to the private and public sectors (trainings, seminars, webinars, workshops, info days, hackathons, conferences). Training activities and course models are organized in variety of fields like CFD, Parallel Computing with CUDA, SME interaction, Big Data, AI in Medical Image Understanding and Anomaly Detection, Materials Modelling, Graph School.
NCC Montenegro agreed future cooperation in the areas of HPC, HPDA and AI related training courses and industry interaction within EuroCC 2 project scope, with further discussion on research and innovation possibilities.