NCC Collaboration Archives - Page 7 of 8

30.11.2022.02.12.2022.

Meeting with NCC Luxembourg

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.

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.

29.11.2022.21.04.2023.

The way is open to building a EuroHPC world-class supercomputer in Greece

A hosting agreement has been signed between the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and the National Infrastructures for Research and Technology (GRNET) in Greece where DAEDALUS, a new EuroHPC supercomputer will be located. University of Donja Gorica is one of the partners in the implementation of the project.

Once procured, DAEDALUS will be a mid-range supercomputer, able to perform more than 30 petaflops or 30 million billion calculations per second. This new supercomputer will be managed and operated by GRNET, the National Infrastructures for Research and Technology in Greece. DAEDALUS will be installed in the historical 19th century Electric Power Station building in Lavrion Technological and Cultural Park and is expected to have an overall surface area of 1500 m2.

The supercomputer will power new applications in a wide range of areas, such as engineering, chemistry, health sciences and will be used to visualise and solve scientific problems. It will advance science and boost the innovation potential of enterprises while improving the European citizens’ quality of life.

DAEDALUS, at a total acquisition cost of EUR 33 million, will be co-funded with a maximum total budget of up to EUR 10 million by the EuroHPC JU (35%) and Greece (65% of national funds). Cyprus, Montenegro and North Macedonia are also involved in the project as members of the DAEDALUS consortium. This partnership is strategic for the European Union as it will support science and technology in the wider area of South-East Europe.

DAEDALUS Partners:

GRNET – National Infrastructures for Research and Technology, Greece Owner, operator, manager, coordinator
The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus: Participation in high-level support team
University of Donja Gorica, Montenegro: Participation in high-level support team
Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje Participation in high-level support team

Links for more details:

31.10.2022.31.10.2022.

Prof. Armin Alibasic on Castiel workshop on Human engagement

Within the Next Castiel training, a member of NCC Montenegro, Ass. professor Armin Alibasic will take part with the topic, “How to engage younger students, including high schools, on HPC”. Through the training, Armin will bring to the attention of all the methods and techniques used by NCC Montenegro, to bring a topic that was almost unknown to the general public, especially to young people, and develop certain knowledge and skills in them.

Prof. Alibasic will be talking at the upcoming Castiel workshop

27.10.2022.28.10.2022.

Meeting with NCC Turkey

HPC NCC Montenegro representatives Luka Filipovic and Sanja Nikolic organized initial meeting with colleagues from NCC Turkey and exchanged experience and learnings on dissemination strategies, industry collaboration and training activities.

Turkish Academic Network and Information Centre (TUBITAK ULAKBIM), as lead beneficiary, is responsible for the management of NCC Turkey. As the Third-Parties of NCC Turkey, Middle East Technical University, Sabancı University, and Istanbul Technical University National Center for High-Performance Computing (UHeM) share their HPC and domain expertise through the dedicated training events, schools, and consultancies.

The NCC has organized wide range of events (>60 events with >11.000 participants) that strengthen the HPC environment by emphasizing the benefits of HPC-related technologies to the private and public sectors (trainings, seminars, webinars, workshops, info days, hackathons, conferences). Training activities and course models are organized in variety of fields like CFD, Parallel Computing with CUDA, SME interaction, Big Data, AI in Medical Image Understanding and Anomaly Detection, Materials Modelling, Graph School.

NCC Montenegro agreed future cooperation in the areas of HPC, HPDA and AI related training courses and industry interaction within EuroCC 2 project scope, with further discussion on research and innovation possibilities.

30.06.2022.27.10.2022.

Collaboration with NCC Germany

As a follow up to the “speed date” event organized by EuroCC/Castiel projects, NCC Montenegro and NCC Germany organized a meeting to explore opportunities for future collaboration between two NCCs. It was interesting to discuss the differences and better understand the grounds for future collaboration. Both NCCs introduced their teams, progress and results achieved so far. A possibility to include members of German NCC into the training and research support activities in Montenegro were discussed. Concrete proposals were discussed for the Fall training on AI/ML and parallel programming. NCC Montenegro also informed German NCC team about the priorities of Montenegrin S3 Smart Specialisation Strategy that may be a good inspiration for thematic areas for joint collaboration.

.Discussion the collaboration between NCC Germany and NCC Montenegro

09.06.2022.27.10.2022.

EuroCC Training champions meeting

EuroCC organized Trainer champions/deputies meeting on 8^th 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.

03.06.2022.27.10.2022.

Discussion of Training Opportunities with KIFÜ from NCC Hungary

NCC Montenegro and NCC Hungary (KIFÜ) had a very interesting discussion today about various training opportunities. KIFÜ representatives expressed their interest in Open Academy training courses that were offered to high school students. We discussed possibility to collaborate in some future training events.