National Competence Centre for High-Performance Computing
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.
How can you show what a Machine Learning model does once it’s trained?
In this talk, you’re going to learn how to create Machine Learning apps and demos using Streamlit and Gradio, Python libraries for this purpose. Additionally, you’ll see how to share them with the rest of the Open Source ecosystem. Learning to create graphic interfaces for models is extremely useful for sharing with other people interesting them. The lecture will take place on 2 November 2022, 18:30h. Expected duration is 1 hour.
For registration please click on the following link.
What is required to follow it?
👉 Basic knowledge of Python
👉 Conceptual knowledge of ML
👉 A google Colab account
👉 A Hugging Face Hub account
University of Donja Gorica and NCC Montenegro are organizing parallel computing course. Parallel computing is essential for solving numerical problems that are too hard for sequential programs. During this course, distributed and parallel computing will be introduced to the students and industry partners, as well as performance indicators of parallel programs. In the second part of training, students will be familiarized to the fundamentals of parallel programming with multicore HPCs using shared memory and distributed memory architecture with OpenMP and MPI. After adoption of parallel programming essentials, lectures will cover all steps of decomposition of serial program and their transformation into parallel; recognize parallelization and communication potential problems.
The expected duration of the course is 5 weeks, 90 minutes per week in the afternoon hours
Course start : 9.11.2022, 17.30,
Location : University of Donja Gorica, A3 amphitheatre (3rd floor).
Last week, the Summer school on HPC Computer Architectures for AI and Dedicated Applications was held in Barcelona at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Over the course of 5 days, excellent lecturers gave the participants the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the architecture of supercomputers, to deal in detail with RISC-V, to run scripts for training AI models on the MareNostrum supercomputer, but also with the application of these high-performance systems in application development artificial intelligence. One of the participants of this school was our PhD student from the Faculty of Information Systems and Technologies, mr Stevan Cakic. Mr. Cakic provided us with few photos from the event.
UDG and NCC Montenegro team members won a grant from ANSO – Alliance of International Science Organizations. This project aims development of a competency training in Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and it is focused on innovation based on IoT and AI and development of competences and skills students will needs to have competitive advantage in IoT/I in the near future. This project started at the beginning of 2022 and will be implemented until the end of 2023. Ongoing activities are including initial team preparation and analysis of the sectors (WP1). The key personnel include UDG and NCC Montenegro senior members, as well as reputable experts from China, Serbia, and Slovenia. UDG is an ANSO Member Organization. More on ANSO can be found here.
During the summer school of game programming, students had the opportunity to learn the basics of the Python programming language, and later the pyGame game development package within the EuroCC NCC Montenegro.
In the first part of the training, students learned why programming is so widespread today, what the basic data types are in Python, what are the conditions and loops. Also, students had the opportunity to learn what lists and dictionaries are, but also what object-oriented programming is. Besides listening to lectures, everyone who wanted to follow the second part of the training had to do homework (writing essays and programming). In the second part of the training, intensive lectures were held where the participants heard more about the Python package pyGame. This package is used to develop games in Python. Through the creation of the game, students learned how to program movement in games, detect collisions between objects, add graphics, sound. At the end of this part of the training, 4 teams were formed. The last day of training was organized as a competition between teams. Their task was to make a smaller game. The winning team won the prize to participate in this year’s conference within the EuroCC NCC Montenegro project.
It was a pleasure for us to work with such a talented group of young people who we expect will achieve great success in the future.
University of Donja Gorica and HPC NCC Montenegro invited a special guest, prof. dr Petar Velickovic, an Affiliated Professor at the University of Cambridge and Scientific Researcher at DeepMind. Prof. Velickovic gave a very interesting talk on machine learning, a few practical applications of AI/ML used by Google Maps, pharmaceutical industry, and mathematics. Prof. Velickovic presented his latest research activities and results, most notably the AI/ML applications in mathematics that was published in Nature journal. There was around 80 attendees that included high school and college students (undergraduate and graduate), representatives of industry. Prof. Velickovic then had a meeting with Prof. Veselin Vukotic, UDG Rector, professors and young researchers. This was Petar’s fist lecture he gave in Montenegro!
