Round Table: Driving the Future with HPC/AI Innovation in Montenegrin S3

University of Donja Gorica (UDG) will organize a round table which will be held on Saturday 26.02.2022. at 10:00 at the University of Donja Gorica (UDG) in amphitheater AS. The round table will be organized on the topic of Driving the future with HPC and AI innovations in Smart Specialization Areas in Montenegro in the framework of the project“EuroCC – National Competence Centre in the area of high-performance computing (HPC)” which aims to establish a network of national centres of competence for high-performance computing in 33 member states of the Joint Undertaking for European High Performance Computing (EuroHPC JU) within Horizont2020 programme.

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The aim of the round table is to awake interest in this area among participants, companies and students who are interested in learning more, and especially to inform them about the possibilities of using and applying advanced HPC (High Performance Computing) technologies and AI in various fields such as agriculture, tourism and medicine.

The round table will be opened by Rector of UDG, prof. dr Veselin Vukotic, while prominent experts in this field, as well as students of doctoral and postgraduate master’s studies, will have their presentations on this topic. The round table will be held on Saturday, 26.02.2022. starting at 10:00 at the University of Donja Gorica, amphitheater AS and detailed information can be found in the Agenda attached (link).

Saturday, 26.02.2022. at UDG

AI and function of the brains of adults and the unborn

University of Donja Gorica from Montenegro and International Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina are organizing a scientific conference on the topic “What does modern science know about the structure and function of the brains of adults and the unborn?”. The conference is taking place at the UDG, Amphitheater AS, on 5th and 6th of February 2022 . The organizers of the conference are Academic prof. dr Veselin Vukotic and Academic prof. dr Asim Kurjak.

We would like to emphasize the talks on the use of Artificial intelligence for pattern recognition, ultrasound diagnostics and prediction of performance and potential failures of medical devices. Those talks will be given by Academic Almir Badnjevic and prof. dr Tarik Uzunovic.

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Training Best Practice Seminar (CASTIEL)

On Thursday, 20 January, from 2pm – 5:30pm CET, representatives from NCC Montenegro took part in the Training Best Practice Seminar organized by CASTIEL project. The topics for the seminar were: How to organize an event such as an HPC hackathon or a winter-school and how to attract (new) attendees. Dr. Tomo Popovic and Dr. Luka Filipovic gave a presentation on How to organise an international conference, and discussed the experiences on organizing a HPC/HPDA/AI workshop within IEEE Information Technology IT2021 conference that was held last year.

Presentation on how to organise a training workshop within an conference
Around 50 people attended the presentation

Registration open: 2nd HPC, HPDA, and AI Workshop

Registration is open for the upcoming EuroCC Training Event – 2nd High Performance Computing, High Performance Data Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence Workshop. This event is organized in alignment with the 26th International Information Technology IEEE Conference IT 2022, traditionally taking place in Žabljak, Montenegro. However, the IT2022 is organized as a virtual online event this year. Depending on the epidemic situation in Podgorica, the EuroCC training may be offered in a hybrid (virtual and live at the UDG). You can access the finalized version of the agenda here.

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You can register for the event by clicking on the image below or at this link.

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Successful HPC Training – Collaboration with Partner NCCs

NCC Montenegro and NCC Romaina organized training event as one of EuroCC activities. Dr. Kyriacos HADJIYIANNAKOU from NCC Cyprus gave presentation about HPC and Parallel Programming. Dr. Maxim Masterov, SURF, The Netherlands NCC gave presentation about practical use of HPC in SURF and shown users how to execute first parallel sciripts on their HPC cluster. Montenegrin participants were interested students and professors from academy institutions and IT companies.

Virtual training supported by the collaboration with other HPC NCCs
Montenegrin students were interested in how to use the HPC resources for their research

EuroCC project presented at national conference

EuroCC NCC Montenegro participated in a national conference on Industry 4.0 and Cyber Security issues in Montenengro, where reference solutions on the possibility of applying HPC in the process of digitalization and possibilities for collaboration with EuroCC were presented. The conference is organized by UDG and in cooperation with the Chamber of Economy of Montenegro. Montenegrin NCC team gave presentation on the EuroCC project and the progress on activities so far. The team extended invitation for collaboration to all stakeholders and representatives from industry, academia and public sector.

EuroCC presented at a national conference
Presenting project activities and results achieved so far
This was a hybrid event (online and live), hotel Hilton, Podgorca