High-performance computing is no longer confined to laboratories; it is the new engine of industrial competitiveness.
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The NCC Montenegro recently hosted a collaborative meeting with Branko Dzakula, a prominent cybersecurity expert and serial tech entrepreneur. As NCC Montenegro accelerates the adoption of AI and supercomputing across the region, this meeting served as a strategic platform to explore how next-generation computational power can elevate enterprise security.
NCC meets Branko Dzakula: HPC+AI+Cybersecurity = Fast, Smart, and Secure.
Mr. Branko Dzakula brings an exceptional track record of scaling high-growth tech companies that bridge advanced automation, cybersecurity, and AI compliance. He is the Co-founder of Secfix, a highly successful Germany-based compliance automation platform that recently secured a major $12 million Series A funding round (bringing its total investment to over $17 million), to support its rapidly expanding global client base. His startup portfolio also features impactful Montenegrin-founded ventures, including Skenify, a specialized AI-backed vulnerability management SaaS tailored for the SME sector, and UN1QUELY, a premier regional cybersecurity consulting firm and professional academy. Recognized as a Top 3% global talent (Toptal network), Mr. Dzakula holds top-tier international credentials (CISSP, CISM) and maintains active leadership in IEEE and ISACA. His ventures represent the pinnacle of commercial success and technical expertise, proving that Montenegrin-led innovation can significantly impact highly competitive European markets.
NCC Montenegro serves as a national gateway to the European supercomputing ecosystem, providing Cloud HPC assessments (over 100), HPC/AI technical consultations (over 50), and EuroHPC access/deployment (15+ companies and institutions), successfully supporting advanced R&D and AI scaling. By providing free access to GPU/CPU hours on world-class EuroHPC supercomputers like LUMI and Leonardo (resources otherwise cost-prohibitive for local firms), the NCC has accelerated innovation for MNE companies, across a wide array of sectors, including: FinTech (Uhura Solutions, PAID MNE), HealthTech (ONE AI), AdTech & Digital integrity (Coinis), Cybersecurity & Safety (DeepMark, CyberCo), HR-Tech (Recrewty, Digital Smart), Industry 4.0 & Green AI (FainTech), Climate Tech (IHMS), XAI (ETF), etc. With a robust educational portfolio of over 40 HPC/AI training sessions and industry workshops in 2025 alone, the NCC has become the primary catalyst for the nation’s HPC/AI talent pool and digital competitiveness.
The dialogue highlighted potential use-cases in the R&D phase, specifically anchoring advanced cybersecurity operations onto HPC infrastructure, as well as establishing a training framework for specialized capacity building. Through this collaboration, NCC Montenegro leverages its parallel computing expertise and EuroHPC infrastructure to secure intensive AI-driven workloads and advanced cybersecurity workflows. By bridging the gap between high-end expertise and exascale resources, this collaboration aims to support Montenegrin innovations becoming globally competitive, ethically sound, and cyber-resilient.
The Gray Scott School is an advanced training program dedicated to High-Performance Computing (HPC), led by experts from IJCLab, CNRS, Inria, LUPM, LPNHE & LISN. This summer school, in a unique format and entirely free of charge, is dedicated to programming and optimization on Heterogeneous Architectures.
The school covers the optimization of computations on different types of hardware (CPU, GPU), presenting their respective characteristics, architectures and bottlenecks. It covers generic optimization methods applicable to all types of hardware, as well as the various libraries, technologies and languages available to achieve the best possible performance. Ideally, the peak performance of the machine.
Gray Scott school 2026
Through hands-on sessions, lectures, and regular technical webinars, the school equips participants with the skills needed to design, optimize, and scale high-performance applications.
All optimization techniques taught during the school are illustrated using a single reference problem: the simulation of a Gray Scott reaction.
Dates: 2 weeks between June 22 and July 3, 2026 Location: Online or onsite, or from Satellite Sites More info & Registration: https://cc-fr.eu/gray-scott-school-2026/ Price : Free of charge.
Open to students, researchers, and professionals with basic programming experience who wish to develop HPC competencies.
Gray Scott Thursdays
What sets this program apart is its in-depth summer sessions combined with a preparatory series of 18 live webinars, from January to June, known as Gray Scott Thursdays. These webinars, held weekly and presented by the school’s professors, provide an early insight into the key concepts and technologies that will be explored more intensively during the school. More info
The Montenegrin company ONEAI has successfully carried out a project on the EuroHPC infrastructure, utilizing the LUMI-G supercomputer to develop advanced AI models in the field of ECG signal analysis. Following the successful completion of the previous cycle, the AIHeal project has been granted renewed access to computational resources for the upcoming period.
During the previous project, the team developed a dynamic HPC pipeline that enables training personalized models for each individual patient, with the capability for continuous retraining based on new data. The key innovation lies in establishing an integrated system that connects the existing infrastructure with the supercomputer:
data is automatically collected from the AIHeal system,
sent to the LUMI supercomputer for training,
after processing, the models are returned to the production environment and registered in the MLflow system.
This approach enables the creation of “digital twin” patient models, where each model is tailored to the specific characteristics of the individual, significantly improving anomaly detection accuracy compared to generic models.
By leveraging the LUMI infrastructure, the AIHeal team achieved significant acceleration in the model training process, particularly through parallelization across multiple GPU units and the execution of a large number of experiments simultaneously. This enabled faster identification of optimal models and improved the overall quality of the solution.
The project results confirm that HPC resources play a crucial role in the development of scalable and personalized AI systems in healthcare, especially in the context of real-time biomedical data analysis.
AIHeal
The newly approved access to EuroHPC resources will be used for further model improvement, performance optimization, and expansion of the system to cover a broader range of cardiovascular and other health-related indications.
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has announced an upcoming online event, the EuroHPC Access Calls Webinar – Evaluation Process, Technical Assessment and Best Practices, scheduled for 13 May 2026 from 10:00 to 12:30 (CEST).
The webinar is aimed at researchers and users from both the public and private sectors who are interested in applying for access to EuroHPC supercomputing resources. It will cover key topics such as proposal preparation, evaluation procedures, benchmarking, and successful project implementation. Sessions will be delivered by experts from leading European HPC organizations, offering practical guidance and insights based on real application experiences.
Representatives of NCC Montenegro are actively contributing to the development of the National AI Strategy of Montenegro 2026–2030 as members of the national Working Group coordinated by the Ministry of Public Administration of Montenegro, with support from UNDP Montenegro. The overarching goal of the Strategy is to enable Montenegro to respond to global AI challenges while leveraging its potential for smart, sustainable, and inclusive development, in alignment with European and international standards.
Ministry of Public Administration, regional expert, and UNDP Montenegro coordinating AI Strategy development.
Key milestones in Working Group engagements for AI Strategy development:
Constitutive Session (17 October 2025) – Established the foundation for the Strategy by defining key strategic directions for AI development, including governance and ethical frameworks, education and digital skills, and sectoral applications.
Second Session (19 January 2026) – Advanced the process through discussions on the methodological framework, key development phases, and alignment with international best practices/ European standards, with particular emphasis on digital infrastructure and data ecosystem challenges in Montenegro.
Strategic Workshop (13–14 February 2026, Budva) – Engaged in interactive sessions with national and regional experts, contributing to the identification of strategic directions, core pillars, priority application areas, key challenges and opportunities, and the mapping of the national AI ecosystem.
Third Session (27 March 2026) – Focused on defining the work plan until September 2026, including the organization of thematic stakeholder workshops, expert consultations, to ensure comprehensive insights, refining strategic objectives/measures, and support the drafting of the Strategy document.
The emerging strategic framework is built around several core pillars: digital infrastructure and data ecosystems, AI adoption across sectors, skills and capacity development, and regulatory and ethical AI frameworks, supported by appropriate governance mechanisms.
Participation of representatives from public, academic, industry, and civil sectors.
As a member of the Working Group, NCC Montenegro plays a key role in integrating high-performance computing (HPC) and advanced digital technologies into the national AI strategic framework by promoting HPC as a foundational enabler of AI development, supporting data-intensive AI innovations and applications, and aligning national priorities with European HPC and AI initiatives.
The development of the AI Strategy 2026–2030 represents a significant opportunity for Montenegro to strengthen its digital economy, foster innovation and competitiveness, enhance public services, and position itself within the broader European AI landscape. Through its active participation in this process, NCC Montenegro contributes to shaping a resilient, inclusive, and future-oriented AI ecosystem, grounded in robust infrastructure, accessible advanced technologies, skilled human capital, and strong collaborative governance.
We are proud to highlight PAID MNE as a featured success story in the EuroCC2 & EuroCC4SEE Booklet — demonstrating how HPC is transforming financial analytics and algorithmic trading.
EuroCC2 & EuroCC4SEE Booklet
At the heart of PAID MNE innovations lies PAID-T (Price Action Intelligent Detection Trading) — a smart trading platform that leverages advanced algorithms and AI/ML to dynamically adapt to market movements, optimise investment strategies, and manage risk with higher precision. Traditional computing systems quickly reached their limits. To unlock the required performance, the team scaled their solution to the LUMI supercomputer, one of Europe’s most powerful HPC infrastructures. By enabling multinode execution and real-time task distribution, PAID MNE achieved over 1.2 million simulations in under 5 hours — a process that previously would have taken days. This acceleration enables processing billions of historical transactions in hours instead of days, rapid identification of critical market patterns and data-driven optimisation/ increased accuracy of trading strategies.
PAID MNE success story
This achievement, showcased through the EuroCC2/EuroCC4SEE project, demonstrates how supercomputing is becoming a powerful enabler of business innovation. PAID MNE’s journey is a clear example of how HPC and AI together can transform complex, critical data into faster, more profitable decisions.
