Education Archives - HPC Montenegro

28.05.2025.28.05.2025.

NCC Montenegro presented at EuroCC4SEE Seminar “5 Beats of Intelligence”

Successful presentation and from Dejan Babic from University of Donja Gorica at the EuroCC4SEE Seminar organized by NCC Turkiye. This was a part of the EuroCC4SEE project, five countries – Türkiye, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina – have joined forces to present an engaging online seminar series titled: “5 Beats of Intelligence: AI Meets Diverse Domains”.

More details on schedule of seminar presentations and and registrations can be accessed at NCC Turkiye website at the foillowing link.

Successful presentation at the Seminar series, around 25 attendees

The presentation covered use cases from the AI-AGE project implemented at UDG with NCC support

27.05.2025.

Successful Delivery of Short Course: Introduction to SLURM on Computing Cluster

On May 27, 2025, the National Competence Center for HPC in Montenegro organized a one-day short course titled “Introduction to SLURM on Computing Cluster.” This training session was designed to introduce participants to the basics of SLURM, the most widely used workload manager for high-performance computing environments.

dr Luka Filipovic gave an introduction to UDG computiong cluster, SLURM comands

The course gathered 13 attendees, including postgraduate students, academic researchers, and a few representatives from industry. The participants had the opportunity to learn how to submit, manage, and monitor jobs on an HPC system using SLURM through a mix of theoretical overview and hands-on examples.

ms Enisa Trubljanin presented her research, activity of UDG AI Club

The short course started with a presentation from ms Enisa Trubljanin, where she discussed the use of AI and HPC in education. She was focused on developing prediction models for computer vision. Then, dr Luka Filipovic gave a presentation on SLURM with practical examples and demonstrations on UDG cluster. The course was wrapped up with presentation by mr Dejan Babic, who described Conda and demonstrated how it can be used for creation of virtual environments for different HPC experiments. Finally, Luka and Dejan discussed the Jupyter notbook setup on UDG cluster, its configuration and access.

mr Dejan Babic gave a presentation of Conda and its use on UDG cluster

With a focus on practical knowledge and real-world usage scenarios, the training aimed to support users in better utilizing HPC resources for data processing, simulations, and advanced research tasks.

The course gathered 13 attendees: students, academic researchers, and representatives from industry.

26.05.2025.26.05.2025.

Profiling AI Software Bootcamp

Together with NVIDIA and OpenACC organization, EuroCC2 will host a virtual Profiling AI Software Bootcamp on July 9-10, 2025.

The Profiling AI Software Bootcamp covers the process and tools needed to profile AI and machine learning applications to fully utilize high-performance systems. Attendees will learn to profile applications using NVIDIA Nsight™ Systems, a system-wide performance analysis tool; analyze and identify optimization opportunities; and improve performance of applications to scale efficiently across systems of any quantity or size of CPUs and GPUs. Additionally, this bootcamp will walk through the system topology to learn the dynamics of multi-GPU and multi-node connections and architecture.

People who complete the bootcamp are encouraged to apply to participate in the upcoming EuroCC AI Hackathon, which will be open for applications shortly.

Due to EuroCC2 regulations, generic or private email addresses cannot be accepted. Please use your official university or company email address to prove your affiliation when applying.

Application Deadline: 16th June 2025

Prerequisites: Basic experience with Python programming and PyTorch distributed training.

Event format: This bootcamp will be hosted online in Central European Summer Time (CEST). All communication will be through Zoom, Slack and email.

Compute Resources: Attendees will be given access to a GPU cluster for the duration of the bootcamp.

More info, registration and agenda are available at https://www.openhackathons.org/s/siteevent/a0CUP00001YljuY2AR/se000402

19.05.2025.28.05.2025.

Successful Completion of Online Course on Prompt Engineering

We are pleased to announce that the Online Course on Prompt Engineering, which started on April 7, 2025, has been successfully completed!

Organized by NCC Montenegro within the EuroCC2 project, the course attracted participants from academia, industry, and the public sector, reflecting growing interest in large language models (LLMs) and the practical skills required to effectively interact with AI systems through prompt engineering.

Throughout the course, attendees explored the foundations of prompt engineering, best practices for writing effective prompts, and hands-on examples using state-of-the-art LLMs. The interactive format encouraged active learning and provided participants with the tools to apply AI more efficiently in their domains.

We thank all participants for their engagement and look forward to continuing to support skill development in AI, HPC, and digital transformation through future training opportunities.

This was the second time the course ran, bringing the toal number of participants to over 70

15.05.2025.15.05.2025.

EuroCC4SEE Seminar Series – 5 Beats of Intelligence: AI Meets Diverse Domains

As part of the EuroCC4SEE project, five countries – Türkiye, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina – have joined forces to present an engaging online seminar series titled: “5 Beats of Intelligence: AI Meets Diverse Domains”.

Tjis is a joint effort from NCCs from the EuroCC4SEE

In this series, each country will host a dedicated session exploring how Artificial Intelligence (AI) intersects with a different scientific or industrial domain. The seminars are designed to share knowledge, inspire collaboration, and engage both academic and applied research communities in the EuroHPC ecosystem.

📅 The series runs from 20 May to 22 July 2025, with a new seminar approximately every two weeks. All seminars will be hosted online via Zoom. More details on schedule and registrations can be accessed at NCC Turkiye website at the foillowing link.

Mr Dejan Babic will give the first presentation proviedd by NCC Montenegro

Mr Ivan Jovovic will give the second presentation from NCC Montenegro

13.05.2025.15.05.2025.

EuroCC4SEE Workshop in Belgrade

HPC Serbia is organizing a face-to-face regional EuroCC4SEE Workshop in Belgrade from 20 to 22 May 2025. The workshop will commence around noon on 20 May and conclude by noon on May 22. During the first half-day, we will hold sessions tailored for researchers. The second half-day will focus on SMEs, while the afternoon of the second day will feature presentations on the use of HPC in public administration. On the third day, we will showcase examples of HPC applications in the region. NCC Montenegro team members will participate in the event and give presentation on 22 May. You can learn more about the event at the following link: https://indico.ipb.ac.rs/event/590/

You can register at: https://indico.ipb.ac.rs/event/590/registrations

In total, we will conduct four half-day sessions focused on:

The use of HPC, HPDA and AI in Academia,
The use of HPC, HPDA and AI in SMEs,
The use of HPC, HPDA and AI in Public Administration,
Best Practices from the Region.

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05.05.2025.05.05.2025.

Successful Realization of Short Course: From PC to HPC

The one-day short course “From Personal Computing to HPC”, held on April 29, 2025, successfully brought together around 20 participants from academia, industry, and public institutions. The course offered a practical introduction to the evolution from everyday computing environments to high-performance computing (HPC), with a focus on real-world applications and national infrastructure.

There was around 20 attendees, mainly students from the second year of Information Systems and Electrical Engineering

Lecturers Dejan Babić and Elvis Taruh guided attendees through key concepts, showcasing how HPC resources can be leveraged for data-intensive tasks and advanced simulations. Through interactive discussions and live demonstrations, participants gained insights into the capabilities of Montenegro’s EuroCC infrastructure and how to access and utilize HPC resources for their own research or professional needs. The course sparked meaningful exchanges and interest in further training, highlighting the growing demand for computational skills in diverse fields.