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29.06.2025.29.06.2025.

Master Thesis Defense: HPC and AI for Education Enhancement

Ms. Enisa Trubljanin successfully defended her master’s thesis titled “Deep Learning with Application in Education” at the Faculty of Information Systems and Technologies, University of Donja Gorica. The development and testing of these solutions were supported by high-performance computing (HPC) resources provided through the EuroCC initiative in Montenegro.

ABSTRACT – This master’s thesis explores the potential application of deep learning in education through the development and evaluation of two concrete solutions: an intelligent chatbot for solving matrix problems and a model for detecting cheating during online exams by analyzing eye movement. The first part of the thesis provides a theoretical foundation of deep learning, with a focus on neural networks, their architectures, transfer learning, and evaluation metrics. The practical part presents the development of a chatbot based on advanced language and mathematical models, implemented using high-performance computing cluster resources, enabling students to engage in interactive mathematics learning. Additionally, a model for detecting cheating through gaze analysis was developed, trained on the Columbia Gaze Dataset, and integrated into an online exam proctoring system. Evaluation results demonstrate a high level of accuracy and user satisfaction for both solutions. Beyond the technical aspects, the thesis also addresses ethical issues and privacy concerns related to the use of artificial intelligence in educational settings. Based on the findings, the study highlights the broad range of potential applications of deep learning in modern educational systems.

There was three great candidates on the same day!

18.06.2025.18.06.2025.

FIST at UDG Wins EuroHPC JU Grant for HPC-Powered Research Development

The Faculty for Information Systems and Technologies (FIST) at the University of Donja Gorica (UDG) has been awarded a prestigious grant through the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking Open Call, marking a significant milestone for Montenegrin academic engagement with cutting-edge high-performance computing (HPC) resources.

As part of this grant, FIST has secured access to the Leonardo Booster partition at CINECA, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe. This will enable FIST researchers to perform large-scale experiments that are otherwise infeasible with standard computing infrastructure.

FIST at UDG gained access to Leonardo BOOSTER via EuroHPC JU open calls

The awarded project focuses on cross-lingual transfer learning in large language models (LLMs), aiming to systematically evaluate how model architecture and scale influence multilingual performance. By fine-tuning major LLM families (LLaMA, Mistral, DeepSeek) across model sizes from 1B to 70B parameters, the research will generate insights into optimal model selection under real-world resource constraints—critical for European institutions working with diverse languages and limited compute budgets. This is a development project with HPC resources available for 12 months.

The research focuses on cross-lingual transfer learning in large language models (LLMs)

This achievement underscores the growing capacity of UDG and FIST to contribute to frontier AI research, while reinforcing the mission of the National Competence Center in HPC (NCC Montenegro) to support HPC adoption across academia and industry in the region.

We congratulate the FIST team on this major success and look forward to sharing results from their HPC-powered investigations.

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.