National Competence Centre for High-Performance Computing
NCC Montenegro and NCC Hungary (KIFÜ) had a very interesting discussion today about various training opportunities. KIFÜ representatives expressed their interest in Open Academy training courses that were offered to high school students. We discussed possibility to collaborate in some future training events.
H2020 AIMHiGH – FF4EuroHPC Experiment: How can HPC help digital innovation SMEs to improve their offering to agri-food sector, especially to support SMEs coming from agri-food sector. We use HPC and AI to develop advanced computer vision tools based on ML and Edge AI that can be used as a part of IoT-based digital farm management tools. It has been a full year since we started and here are some of the highlights of the collaboration between DigitalSmart Montenegro, DunavNET, and University of Donja Gorica (HPC NCC Montenegro and FoodHub CoE). Entering the overall verification and validation stage of the project.
University of Donja Gorica and HPC NCC Montenegro invited a special guest, prof. dr Mladen Kezunović, a Regents Professor at Texas A&M University and Member of the US National Academy of Engineering. Prof. Kezunović gave talk on Artificial Intelligence in Energy Sector. This lecture is part of the series of events pertaining to HPC/AI applications in the priority domains of Motenegrin S3 and in line with the EuroCC NCC Montengro goal for engaging industry with respect to HPC/AI applications . There was over 70 attendees (live and online) including industry representatives (energy sector IT companies), universities, and high schools.
The first meeting of the EU-MNE HORIZON EUROPE Joint Committee on Research and the Ministry of Science and Technological Development was held in Podgorica the other day. The meeting was focused on Montenegro’s participation in this most important research and innovation program in the EU. UDG researchers participated in the meeting and discussed the experiences with the past and ongoing Horizon 2020 projects including H2020 DEMETER, H2020-RISE TRACEWINDU, and H2020 EUROCC. More information available at the following link.
NCC Montenegro researchers at UDG won another NVIDIA Academic Grant that will provide additional classroom equipment (Jetson Nano). This equipment will be used for implementing Edge AI classroom and realization of training in AI applications in IoT. The grant was awarded to prof. Tomo Popovic. Researchers participating in the Edge AI training are Stevan Cakic, MSc, Ivan Jovovic, Dejan Babic, and Zoja Scekic and it will be organized in with the support from NCC Montenegro.
NGO “IT Društvo”, in cooperation with HPC NCC Montenegro, organizes a special session – panel “HPC / AI applications – opportunities, challenges and perspectives” as part of the XXVI scientific-professional conference Information Technology, IEEE IT2022, to be held on June 4, 2022 in the village of Tepca in the canyon of the river Tara, municipality of Žabljak, Montenegro. This panel aims to comprehensively and multidisciplinary review the opportunities, challenges and perspectives of the application of Artificial Intelligence and High-performance Computing in our country and in the world. The panel will be organized in the beautiful ambiance of the Tara river canyon with competent participants, representatives of scientific and educational institutions from the country and the region, agencies and companies. The agenda is available at this link.
Mr Stevan Šandi, a PhD candidate at UDG and NCC Montenegro team member, won NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant for his PhD research under DASCAP project. He was awarded an advanced GPU hardware that will be used for AI and Data Science applications in agriculture domain. He will be experimenting with various computer vision prediction models. Doing experiments on a better GPU will significantly reduce the time to get all of the planned experiments done.
