Recently, HPC Serbia participated in the all-hands meeting of the CASTIEL 2, EuroCC 2, and EuroCC4SEE projects, held from 23 to 25 September 2025, in Tallinn, Estonia. The event gathered National Competence Centers (NCCs) and Centers of Excellence (CoEs) in HPC across Europe, where participants celebrated successes, discussed obstacles, and collaborated to shape the future of HPC in Europe.
The poster sessions stood out as a highlight of the event, providing NCCs and CoEs with the opportunity to showcase their latest activities and achievements, while demonstrating how HPC fuels innovation in fields such as engineering, climate science, and healthcare. Rather than being passive displays, these sessions promoted active engagement, allowing attendees to ask questions, share feedback, and explore new collaboration opportunities.
The meeting insights emphasized that advancing sustainability in HPC relies on creating innovative funding models and forming new partnerships. Moreover, training and outreach efforts should be inclusive and accessible to engage all sectors. Both formal and informal collaborations were recognized as essential for fostering innovation, with future cooperation offering chances to leverage past successes and tackle emerging challenges.
Regional collaboration: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Recently, we welcomed our colleagues from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Belgrade and took the opportunity to speak with Ana Lalović from the Verlab Institute and NCC Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ana shared insights into the country’s growing HPC ecosystem.
Shared-memory parallelization with OpenMP
This 2-day course, organized by the Austrian Scientific Computing (ASC) research center in collaboration with NCC Austria, focuses on shared-memory parallelization using OpenMP for multi-core, shared-memory, and ccNUMA systems. It starts on 3 November 2025.
Introduction to GPU Programming
EuroCC2's national competence center in Sweden (ENCCS) is hosting an online introductory GPU programming course from 18 to 20 November 2025. This webinar is especially useful for early-career researchers and engineers working on CPU-based software for workstations or supercomputers. Additionally, a follow-up workshop will be held from 25 to 27 November 2025, offering a more in-depth look at GPU programming. More details will be shared soon.
Supercomputing in Europe Podcast
The guest on this episode is Mikael Johansson. He focuses on promoting the adoption of quantum computing and communications at CSC and builds quantum infrastructure as a key component of the high-performance computing ecosystem.
Dr. Marija Mitrovic Dankulov from HPC Serbia appeared on Newsmax Balkans TV to discuss the upcoming SAIFA - Serbian Artificial Intelligence Factory Antenna project. In the interview, Marija highlights Serbia's part in the EU's initiative to create a network of AI Factories and antennas across Eu...
Over the weekend, HPC Serbia’s Marija Mitrovic Dankulov and Dusan Vudragovic visited our colleagues from NCC North Macedonia as part of twinning activities between these two national HPC centers. We held several meetings and networking events to promote knowledge exchange, technical expertise, and...
The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has announced the selection of 13 AI Factory Antennas to improve existing AI Factories. This effort aims to strengthen national AI ecosystems and expand access to AI-optimized supercomputing resources across Europe. The Serbi...
We hosted a three-day EuroCC4SEE workshop in Belgrade from 20 to 22 May 2025. This event showcased the use of HPC, HPDA, and AI in academia, SMEs, and public administration throughout Serbia and the surrounding region. A total of 28 speakers from the area presented how these technologies are utilized in the stunning Palace of Science building in Belgrade. The workshop drew an impressive audience of approximately 100 participants eager to delve into these technologies.
This 2-day course, organized by the Austrian Scientific Computing (ASC) research center in collaboration with NCC Austria, focuses on shared-memory parallelization using OpenMP for multi-core, shared-memory, and ccNUMA systems. It starts on 3 November 2025, with beginner-level instruction on...
EUPEX (European Pilot for Exascale) is hosting a webinar on the flexibilities of wavelets in BigDFT as a computational basis set for large-scale electronic structure calculations on 29 October 2025. Launched in 2005, the BigDFT project investigates Daubechies wavelets as a basis for Kohn–Sham d...
EuroCC2's national competence center in Sweden (ENCCS) is hosting an online introductory GPU programming course from 18 to 20 November 2025. This webinar is especially useful for early-career researchers and engineers working on CPU-based software for workstations or supercomputers. It also benef...
The LUMI AI Factory welcomes you to the online seminar on Evolutionary Optimization of Neural Network Hardware Accelerators, scheduled for 3 November 2025. The session will cover an overview of small networks used in embedded systems and advanced optimization methods. You will also explore power...
LUMI AI Factory is hosting an online training session on using Python in HPC on 19 November 2025. The course emphasizes practical tools and integrations like Native Code, Dask Distributed, and Ray, targeting researchers and developers seeking to improve their skills in scalable, efficient com...
EuroCC Czechia, LUMI AI Factory, and EuroCC Germany (SIDE), a CoE HiDALGO2, invite you to a hybrid seminar on quantum computing on 13 November 2025. The event will cover Grover’s Algorithm and the Schrödinger Equation, focusing on a quantum algorithm for estimating eigenvalues and singular...
Between May and July this year, our team partnered with colleagues from the Türkiye, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina national competence centers to organize an online seminar series called 5 Beats of Intelligence: AI Meets Diverse Domains. All the session recordings and presentations are now available on the HPC Serbia website and the NCC Türkiye YouTube channel. We invite everyone to view these informative recordings to learn about recent AI advancements across different sectors and to stay informed about innovative methods shared by regional specialists.
In the seminar series, each country hosted a dedicated session exploring how Artificial Intelligence intersects with a different scientific or industrial field. The seminars aimed to share knowledge, inspire collaboration, and engage both academic and applied research communities within the EuroHPC ecosystem. The series attracted over 100 researchers and students focused on AI applications, HPC professionals, AI developers, industry partners seeking insights into applied AI, and members of the EuroHPC and NCC communities across Europe.
Over six sessions, the series highlighted the wide range of AI applications: from analyzing political dynamics and supporting diplomatic strategies to detecting aging biomarkers through advanced medical imaging. Participants also explored Large Language Models in studying online communities, AI’s role in strengthening healthcare, and the transformative impact of foundation models in genetics and life sciences.
Overall, these sessions demonstrated how combining AI with HPC capabilities drives breakthroughs across disciplines—linking fundamental research, practical applications, and cross-border collaboration within the European research landscape.
Stefan Milošević is a researcher from the University of Cambridge and BIO4 Campus, specializing in AI and HPC applications in oncology, with a particular focus on genetics, omics data, and clinical decision-support systems. AI is steadily transforming the landscape of oncology - not as a replaceme...
Dr. Nenad Vukmirović from the Institute of Physics Belgrade and his research group are dedicated to understanding charge transport in semiconducting materials - an essential process underlying the performance of all electronic devices. "To improve these devices", he explains, "it is absolutely nec...
Complex systems are ubiquitous and can be found in various domains of physics, biology, and social sciences. Although they differ in origin and function, they share a common feature that they consist of a large number of interacting units, which exhibit collective behavior due to these interactions....
Success stories
The EuroCC success story booklet for 2024 has been released. It provides an overview of successful experiments conducted in 19 European countries using cutting-edge supercomputers provided by EuroHPC. It also showcases successful collaborations among different countries in the fields of high-performance computing, high-performance data analysis, and artificial intelligence. The success stories are categorized by topic, including natural sciences, aeronautics, environment, energy, agriculture, pharmacy, medicine, manufacturing, engineering, finance, and mobility. Each story presents unique challenges, solutions, and business impacts and benefits.
HPC Serbia plays a central role in fostering regional cooperation throughout Southeast Europe by linking national competence centers, research institutions, and industry partners within the wider EuroCC and EuroHPC frameworks. Initiatives like EuroCC4SEE allow HPC Serbia to enhance cross-border co...
The EuroCC4SEE project (European Competence Centers for Southeast Europe) is a EuroHPC-funded program designed to build and enhance National Competence Centers (NCCs) specializing in high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and high-performance data analytics (HPDA) througho...
The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is a collaborative initiative between the EU, European countries, and private partners. Its goal is to develop a world-class supercomputing ecosystem in Europe. The EuroHPC JU was established in 2018, and Serbia became a membe...
Supercomputing in Europe Podcast
