Events Archives - Page 11 of 24

26.06.2023.30.06.2023.

Collaborative initiatives between NCC Romania and Montenegro

Representatives of NCC Romania and NCC Montenegro organized an initial meeting to discuss future collaboration activities based on mutual interest in improving HPC NCCs’ best practices, training capacities, and industry/public outreach.

The initially discussed plans include the organization of joint training courses for academia professors and students to exchange and enhance HPC/AI study programs, the preparation of a joint training event for industry representatives covering HPC+ industry and commercial benefits and technical upskilling, as well as the facilitation of twinning activities to strengthen NCCs’ expertise and capacities in facing EuroCC2 project activities and challenges.

Both NCCs demonstrate enthusiasm and commitment to foster fruitful cooperation and knowledge/experience sharing in the field of HPC/HPDA/AI technologies related to academic excellence and industry digitalization.

15.06.2023.16.06.2023.

NCC Montenegro participated at “Central European NCCs Workgroup Meeting”

Representatives of NCC Montenegro participated (online) in the “Central European NCCs Workgroup Meeting” organized within the scope of ASHPC23 – Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2023 (June 13–15, 2023) at the Institute of Information Science in Maribor (IZUM), to actively discuss, exchange experiences and follow up-to-date EuroCC2 and NCCs’ initiatives. Agenda of the NCCs’ meeting covered topics:

NCCs industry’ approach (SMEs engagement, service portfolio, infrastructure access, expected outcomes etc.),

EuroCC2 training activities (training formats, joint training events, regional collaboration, collaboration with CoEs and EDIHs, targeting SME audience etc.)

NCCs communication and disseminations tools (networking events organization, effective communication channels, choosing subjects & speakers, attracting industry stakeholders etc.)

NCC Austria presented their SMEs/Start-ups boosting initiative “EuroCC Supercomputing accelerator” and training initiative on webinar series assuming NCCs and CoEs shared contribution and collaboration. NCC Slovenia presented “SLING Open Doors Days”, their success story on successfully organized community and networking event.

01.06.2023.05.06.2023.

Lecture by Professor Onur Mutlu, a world-renowned scientist

The Centre of Excellence – FoodHub and the Montenegrin National Center of Competence in the Field of High-Performance Computing – EuroCC have the opportunity to host this panel. The lecture will be held in Entrepreneurial Nest (Preduzetničko gnijezdo), on June 8, starting at 4 p.m.

Onur Mutlu is a professor of computer science in information technology and electrical engineering in Zurich, Switzerland, and at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD and MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and his BS in Computer Engineering and Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

His research is related to computer architecture, systems, security and bioinformatics. The work spans and spans the boundaries between applications, systems, languages, system software, compilers, and hardware and addresses many issues of high performance, energy efficiency, hardware security, fault tolerance, predictable systems, reliable systems, and hardware-software cooperation.

prof. dr Onur Mutlu from ETH Zurich is hosted by FoodHub/CoE and NCC Montenegro

31.05.2023.07.06.2023.

EuroCC presentation to FoodDecide partners

Representatives from the NCC Montenegro presented project and their activities to FoodDecide project partners from Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Kühne Logistics University (KLU) and FoodHub CoE. After successful presentation, they discussed on topics for potential collaboration, especially large language models and other AI algorithms.

29.05.2023.08.06.2023.

Open call for grants by the Ministry of Science and Technological Development

An information session and workshop was held at the University of Donja Gorica on May 26 starting to promote and clarify the conditions of the Competition for the co-financing of national scientific research projects by the Ministry of Science and Technological Development.

On behalf of the Ministry of Science and Technological Development, Ms. Milena Milonjić, Acting Director General of the Directorate for Scientific Research, Ms. Jelena Šaranović and Ms. Zorana Lakićević-Milutinović addressed the audience and presented the Competition – open call rules and criteria for co-financing national scientific research projects for 2023.
About 40 researchers, professors and associates of the University of Donja Gorica attended the informative and interactive session.

A grat opportunity for HPC and AI researchers to apply for this open call

The main goal of this open call is to strengthen the capacity of research teams in Montenegro, in order to encourage excellence, thereby contributing to the development of a society based on knowledge and competitiveness at the international level.

24.05.2023.10.10.2023.

EUROCC2 project successfully presented at EDCON Conference 2023

Montenegro welcomed one of the biggest gatherings in the cryptocurrency world and blockchain technologies – EDCON (Community Ethereum Development Conference) bringing founders, developers, researchers, industry leaders, investors and innovators together to discuss the recent developments, emerging trends and overall potential of Etherium-based solutions, blockchain ecosystem, decentralised technologies and digital economy.

During a five-day event, co-organised by UDG, (https://www.edcon.io) visitors from all over the world had an opportunity to listen inspirational speakers, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, to attend panel discussion, interactive workshops and exhibition stands, as well as to experience multiple networking and collaboration opportunities.

NCC team members effectively showcased the EUROCC2 project at the UDG exhibition booth, and also highlighted its significance in the opening speech at the EDCON conference. Multiple high-tech enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and innovative companies’ representatives had an opportunity to understand better how NCC Montenegro, powered by of EUROCC2, brings innovative supercomputing technologies and applications to Montenegro. Visitors were captivated by HPC+ benefits and opportunities, briefly introduced to EuroCC2 project and express further interest in MNE success stories and industry onboarding process.

20.05.2023.20.05.2023.

HPC4S3ME featured at the EDCON2023 conference

University of Donja Gorica presented HPC4S3ME project at our stand at EDCON2023 conference fair. Our researchers had an opportunity to talk to visitors and conference attendees. There was between 1500 and 2000 attendees today at VOCO complex in Podgorica Montenegro. More details on HPC4S3ME website at the following link.

UDG team had a chance to meet with visitors from all over the globe

EDCON (Community Ethereum Development Conference ) is a non-profit annual global Ethereum conference that happens once a year in different countries (EDCON 2017 in Paris, 2018 in Toronto, 2019 in Sydney, 2020-2021 Online, 2022 in San Francisco at Chase Center). It is mainly committed to serving the Ethereum ecosystem in boosting the communication and interaction of Ethereum communities worldwide. Link: https://www.edcon.io/