National Competence Centre for High-Performance Computing
Mr Milutin Pavicevic (Alicorn CEO and PhD candidate at the UDG) and Mr Kosta Pavlovic (PhD candidate at the UCG) were invited to the national TV program “Good morning Montenegro”. The discussion was focused on AI and ChatGPT, perspectives and possibilties.
We are excited that NCC Montenegro is going to be a part of EuroCC2 and Castiel2 projects. The EuroHPC JU continues to fund two flagship projects, EuroCC and Castiel, to build a European network of National Competence Centres for HPC, acting as a hub to promote and facilitate HPC uptake and related technologies across a range of industries. The projects were selected following the call DIGITAL-EUROHPC-JU-2022-NCC-01Search for available translations of the preceding link. The main goal of the EuroCC2 is promoting HPC to boost digital skills, jobs and industrial competitiveness in Europe.
Starting on 1st January 2023, the project EuroCC2 will run for a 3-year period with a total budget of up to €62 million, provided by the Digital Europe Programme and the EuroHPC Participating States. CASTIEL 2 will also run for a 3-year period starting 1st January 2023 and receive up to €3 million funding from the Digital Europe Programme.
EuroCC 2 and Castiel 2 follow on from EuroCC and Castiel, which started on 1 September 2020 and ran for two years. The two projects received funding from Horizon 2020. More info at the EuroCC2 website.
Deep learning and HPC training organized by NCC Montenegro and UDG is featured in the national news portal CDM. The presentations and guest talks will be accessible to students and academia, industry, and general public. There is a very interesting line up of lecturers coming from reputable institutions from the region and abroad. More information about the training is available here. Click on the image below to open the post at the CDM news portal.
The AIMHiGH project, a FF4EuroHPC application experiment for development of computer vision solutions for smart poultry farms, can be seen in the background at the SC22 (#SC22) exhibition booth for FF4EuroHPC during the International Conference on High Performance Computing, Storage and Analysis (Dallas, Texas). AIMHiGH was featured as one of the success stories of the FF4EuroHPC project. Learn more about the FF4EuroHPC project and check out the success stories at the following link.
Parallel computing course organized by NCC Montenegro and UDG was featured in the local media portals. The course lasts 6 weeks and it was open for students and academia, industry and public sector. There is around 50 trainees enrolled, among them the students of the Master’s program Artificial Intelligence from the Faculty of Information Systems.
During the weekend, Ms Bojana Malisic and prof. Tomo Popovic gave an interview at the local TV station about the importance of the #EuroCCME22 conference and EuroCC and Castiel projects. They also provided information on EuroHPC JU, Digital Europe Programme and why we need to pay attention to technologies such as HPC and AI. It was pointed out that we all need to put an effort to bridge the gap between IT and HPC experts, industry that can benefit from the use of HPC, and public sector. For Montenegro, it was pointed out that this conference and EuroCC project are fully in line with the Smart Specialisation Strategy, S3 Montenegro and that we need to use NCC and S3 as a platform for future projects that will benefit from AI and HPC.
Local news portals in Montenegro reported on EuroCC@Montenegro conference. Link: https://www.cdm.me/tehno-nauka/orijentacija-univerziteta-donja-gorica-ka-internacionalizaciji-bila-vrlo-uspjesna-i-dala-rezultate/
