Sanja Nikolic, representative of HPC NCC Montenegro participated at 3rdEUROCC/CASTIEL global conference, organized with an aim of presenting of main results, key achievements and NCCs successful deliverables within EuroCC1 project phase.
EUROCC/CASTIEL representatives presented key highlights of EUROCC 1 project management with regard to Competence Map building; Training/Mentoring /Twinning activities; Industrial interaction support and Awareness Creation events and actions.
In the second part of the conference NCCs Finland, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Slovenia, Sweden and Turkey presented key achievements and EUROCC1 contributions in their respective working packages and selected project activities. NCC Montenegro presented multiple activities and overall results in the project segment related to HPC/HPDA/AI Trainings and Skills development.
University of Donja Gorica, EuroCC Montenegro (national competence center for supercomputers) and in cooperation with the National Center of Spain (NCC Spain) organize the course “Deep Learning and HPC”. Guest lecturers from renowned institutions such as the University of Cambridge, Universidad de Cantabria and Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, GraphCoreAI and Imperial College London, AI Clearing and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, DeepMind, Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, Max Planck Institute will be involved in the implementation of the training.
During this course students will learn how to implement deep learning models for real situations on their local machines, key mathematical concepts of deep learning, some key concepts about computer vision and natural language processing.
In the second part of the training, students will learn about high-performance computing in the development of deep learning applications, parallel computing using the Python language on multiple CPUs or GPUs, and the pyTorch library for developing deep learning models. The course starts with guest lectures at the end of November so you need to express your interest as soon as possible. The course is followed by students of the Master AI program at UDG, but also by students of other programs who express an interest in it. Lectures are open to academia, industry and the public sector.
Recommended prerequisites for successfully attending lectures are: good knowledge of algorithms and mathematics, knowledge of at least one programming language (Python is preferred), basic knowledge of high-performance computing (HPC), basic knowledge and interest in artificial intelligence, knowledge of the English language.
HPC NCC Montenegro representatives Sanja Nikolic and Luka Filipovic organized initial meeting with colleagues from NCC Luxembourg (representatives of Luxinnovation – National Innovation Agency; LuxProvide – in charge of long-term operations of national supercomputer – MeluXina, and University of Luxembourg – providing HPC educational programs and training courses) and discussed cooperation possibilities and best practices sharing in the areas of industry engagement, MeluXina features/access opportunities and training programs.
NCC Luxembourg – NCC Montenegro meeting
With regard to industry cooperation, colleagues from NCC Luxemburg shared their experience and expertise related to business users engagement and MeluXina onboarding process, focusing on HPC needs and benefits, compute-intensive workloads, industry-centric use cases and business cases, supported by dedicated sales & engineering teams. Petascale supercomputer, MeluXina is enabling leading research (non-commercial access through Euro HPC Access Calls) and industrial applications (65% of dedicated resources), with very high security and data protection standards highly appreciated by their commercial users. University of Luxemburg is organizing HPC School and HPC-related Master and Doctoral programs, covering various training needs from beginners access to advanced lectures, on its own and MeluXina supercomputing infrastructure. They also successfully manage HPC community of around 1000 users/ 200 newcomers per year.
NCC Montenegro representatives provided short introduction on main activities and achievements. Based on productive meeting, industry potential discussion and elaborated skills development programs, NCC teams agree on further alignment on HPC+ Topics & Trainings of joint interest, in the context of EuroCC2 plans and 2023 roadmap.
EuroCC organized Trainer champions/deputies meeting on 8th June 2022. Participants shared experiences from their countries, discussed modalities of cooperation and get to know each other better. Luka Filipovic, NCC Montenegro, spoke with colleagues from HPC NCC Finland, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain and UK.
HPC NCC Romania, in cooperation with HPC Competence Centers in Montenegro, Portugal and the Netherlands, is organizing training training session (online) in HPC technologies.
Training event will take place on the 26th of May 2022 starting with 09:00 AM (10.00 AM UTC+3). Draft agenda is avaliable at link.
Lectures will cover : – basic aspects of HPC technology (parallel computing), as well as technical details about accessing HPC resources and the libraries / paradigms used;
– practice session – hands-on exercise, by directly accessing the SURF-NL Supercomputer (Netherlands) from your laptop, which aims to exemplify the use of HPC and apply the concepts in the first part. These exercises will provide access to an HPC-type infrastructure.
In the first part of training, Luka Filipovic, NCC Montenegro, will speak about load balancing algorithms in parallel computing applications.
For the second part of the session, access credentials are needed in the supercomputing system. Participation is free and subject to a limited number of participants.
You will receive the access credentials, as well as the link of the online session, only after registering through the registration form on https://roncc.ro/eurocc-events/hpc-training-event-may-26-2022/. Please register no later than Wednesday, May 25, at 13:00 to have enough time to create all credentials by trainers.
