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05.05.2026.04.05.2026.

Gray Scott school 2026

The Gray Scott School is an advanced training program dedicated to High-Performance Computing (HPC), led by experts from IJCLab, CNRS, Inria, LUPM, LPNHE & LISN. This summer school, in a unique format and entirely free of charge, is dedicated to programming and optimization on Heterogeneous Architectures.

The school covers the optimization of computations on different types of hardware (CPU, GPU), presenting their respective characteristics, architectures and bottlenecks. It covers generic optimization methods applicable to all types of hardware, as well as the various libraries, technologies and languages available to achieve the best possible performance. Ideally, the peak performance of the machine.

Through hands-on sessions, lectures, and regular technical webinars, the school equips participants with the skills needed to design, optimize, and scale high-performance applications.

All optimization techniques taught during the school are illustrated using a single reference problem: the simulation of a Gray Scott reaction.

Dates: 2 weeks between June 22 and July 3, 2026
Location: Online or onsite, or from Satellite Sites
More info & Registration: https://cc-fr.eu/gray-scott-school-2026/
Price : Free of charge.

Open to students, researchers, and professionals with basic programming experience who wish to develop HPC competencies.

Gray Scott Thursdays

What sets this program apart is its in-depth summer sessions combined with a preparatory series of 18 live webinars, from January to June, known as Gray Scott Thursdays. These webinars, held weekly and presented by the school’s professors, provide an early insight into the key concepts and technologies that will be explored more intensively during the school. More info

31.03.2026.06.04.2026.

Successfully Implemented Training on 3D Printing, Generative AI, and HPC

The training on 3D Printing, Generative AI, and High-Performance Computing (HPC) was successfully implemented as planned, bringing together participants interested in emerging digital technologies and their practical application in design and production. Through the training, attendees had the opportunity to explore the fundamentals of 3D printing, digital modelling, and the growing role of generative AI tools in creating and improving 3D models.

There was around 40 people attending the 2-day course

A key message of the training was that generative AI is becoming an important driver of innovation, enabling faster idea generation, automated design support, and new creative workflows. At the same time, such models often require significant computing power for training, fine-tuning, and large-scale inference. This is where HPC plays a crucial role, providing the infrastructure needed to efficiently run advanced AI models and support more complex, data-intensive tasks. By connecting 3D printing, generative AI, and HPC, the training highlighted how these technologies can work together to accelerate innovation in education, research, and industry.

The attendees were split into teams and competed with their 3D models to be printed out

We stressed the importance of HPC to run GenAI tools for 3D modeling

Winning teams were able to print their models

16.03.2026.

NCC Montenegro Announces Short Course: 3D Printing, Generative AI & HPC-Enabled Design

The National Competence Center for High Performance Computing (NCC Montenegro) is launching a short course dedicated to the emerging intersection of 3D printing, generative artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing (HPC). The course is designed to provide participants with practical insight into the full digital fabrication pipeline — from concept and model creation to the production of a physical prototype.

During the two-day program, participants will learn the fundamentals of 3D printing technologies, CAD-based modeling, and model preparation for printing, while also exploring how Generative AI tools can automatically generate and enhance 3D models. A special segment of the course will focus on the role of HPC infrastructure in enabling advanced generative design workflows, including the training and deployment of AI models for complex design generation and optimization.

Designed for students, researchers, and professionals

The course combines theoretical lectures with hands-on sessions, allowing participants to experiment with AI-assisted model generation and prepare designs for 3D printing. The program culminates in a final project where participants implement the complete workflow — from AI-generated concept to printed prototype.

The course is intended for students, researchers, engineers, makers, and professionals interested in digital fabrication, AI-assisted design, and advanced computational technologies. The course will take place on March 26th and March 30th.

Link for registration: https://forms.gle/c1vhhJZRcoXe2Br87

24.02.2026.28.02.2026.

AI in Action for SMEs: EuroCC4SEE Collaborative Online Training

We are pleased to announce the upcoming “AI in Action for SMEs” training, organized within the EuroCC4SEE initiative by NCC Montenegro, NCC Serbia, NCC Bosnia and Herzegovina, and NCC Türkiye. This training will take place March 2-3, 2026.

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The 1.5-day online training is designed for SMEs, start-ups, technical leads, and researchers interested in practical adoption of Artificial Intelligence supported by High-Performance Computing (HPC).

🔗 Full agenda and registration: https://indico.truba.gov.tr/event/250/

What to Expect

The programme focuses on applied AI methods with live demonstrations and real-world use cases.

Day 1 covers Time Series Forecasting with AI & Machine Learning and Explainable AI (XAI), including HPC-enabled demonstrations and practical insights for business and healthcare applications. NCC Montenegro will actively contribute to the time-series and HPC session, presenting practical approaches relevant for SMEs.

Day 2 is dedicated to Applied Data Anonymization Techniques, addressing data protection challenges and practical anonymization approaches essential for responsible AI deployment

Invitation to Participants from Montenegro

As a co-organizer, NCC Montenegro will also present during the programme. We invite companies, researchers, and innovators from Montenegro to register and participate in this regional training.

This is an opportunity to:

Learn from hands-on AI & HPC demonstrations
Connect with regional NCC experts
Strengthen AI adoption capacity within your organization
Participation is free, and registration is open via the event page.

We look forward to strong participation from Montenegro.

10.02.2026.10.02.2026.

Multi-GPU AI Train the Trainer Workshop

The Train the Trainer course was organized from 30 January to 5 February as a series of full-day, intensive lectures, delivered alongside the standard AI and multi-GPU computing courses. This workshop complemented the strong technical focus of the regular course with a dedicated educational track. While the regular course concentrated on hands-on skills for building, scaling, and optimizing AI workloads across multiple GPUs, the Train-the-Trainer track was specifically designed to equip future instructors with the knowledge and pedagogical tools needed to teach these topics effectively. With only a few HPC and AI centres across Europe offering such specialized education, this programme helps expand the network of trainers and institutions capable of delivering high-quality AI and multi-GPU courses at both national and European levels. Researchers from the National Competence Center (NCC) Montenegro participated in this course, further strengthening national capacities in advanced AI and multi-GPU training.

During the training event, participants developed a deep understanding of modern multi-GPU and distributed AI technologies, while also learning effective strategies for teaching these complex concepts. Guided by expert instructors, attendees explored state-of-the-art tools, frameworks, and best practices for scaling AI workloads, combined with pedagogical approaches, teaching materials, and hands-on experience tailored to support the delivery of their own courses. The lectures covered a broad spectrum of topics, including GPU architectures and access to HPC infrastructure; fundamentals of deep learning and the transition from CPU- to GPU-based workloads; distributed training with PyTorch (Distributed Data Parallel, model parallelism, PyTorch Lightning); large language models, fine-tuning techniques, and frameworks such as Hugging Face Accelerate and DeepSpeed; as well as computer vision, MLOps, Ray, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and hyperparameter tuning.

The training event was organised by NCC Poland, NCC Netherlands, NCC Hungary, NCC Belgium, NCC Italy, NCC Finland, NCC Sweden, all National Competence Centres for High-Performance Computing, CASTIEL2 and EuroCC2/EuroCC4SEE.

03.02.2026.11.02.2026.

HPC & AI in Healthcare: From Research to Clinical Practice in Montenegro and SEE

High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are increasingly moving beyond research laboratories into real clinical environments. Across Montenegro and the SEE region, promising AI solutions have been developed for medical image analysis, biomarker detection, and predictive diagnostics. The critical challenge today is ensuring their structured transition from research prototypes to validated, deployable tools within healthcare systems.

Please contact us for attendance, limited number of seats

This event addresses precisely that transition. It focuses on how HPC infrastructure, interdisciplinary collaboration, and coordinated ecosystem support can accelerate the integration of AI into everyday clinical practice. Particular attention will be given to available computational capacities, real-life use cases, and pathways toward sustainable deployment.

The event is organized as a joint initiative between NCC Montenegro and NCC Bosnia and Herzegovina, within the broader framework of EuroCC 2 and EuroCC4SEE. It also represents a form of cross-project pollination with the AI-AGE project, demonstrating how research-driven innovation can evolve into applied healthcare solutions through regional cooperation.

Collaboration between NCC Monteengro and NCC Bosnia and Herzegovina

Researchers, clinicians, innovators, and industry partners are invited to join the discussion, exchange expertise, and contribute to shaping the next steps for HPC- and AI-driven healthcare across Southeast Europe. The event is scheduled for Friday, 13 Feb 2026. Please contact us for further details.

25.12.2025.25.12.2025.

Training event on Practical MPI Programming successfully completed

On 23 December 2025, at premises of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Montenegro, NCC Montenegro (EuroCC) successfully delivered a hands-on training session on MPI programming in Python using mpi4py. The event introduced participants to the fundamentals of the message passing paradigm for distributed-memory systems and explained how the MPI standard enables scalable parallel applications across multiple processes.

Hands-on training session on MPI programming in Python using mpi4py

The training combined concise theory with practical demonstrations. Core MPI concepts such as SPMD execution, communicators, process rank and size, and the basics of point-to-point communication using Send/Recv (including tags and common communication patterns) were covered. Participants also learned how to set up and run MPI programs with mpiexec, verify their environment, and interpret parallel output behaviour.

A key part of the session was a step-by-step example of parallelizing a numerical computation using the trapezoidal rule for integration. Through this case study, workload partitioning across processes and collection of partial results were demonstrated, along with a discussion of typical performance considerations such as synchronization overhead and potential bottlenecks at the root process.