Yesterday, the Serbian daily newspaper Evening News (Večernje novosti) published a story about HPC Serbia and Serbia's involvement in EuroHPC projects. The article, titled They Paved the Way for Supercomputers, features an interview with Dr. Antun Balaž, the leader of HPC Serbia. Dr. Balaž highl...
The Data Science Conference Europe 24 will take place from 18 to 22 November 2024 at the Metropol Palace Hotel in Belgrade. This year's event will feature over 400 talks and 80 technical tutorials, providing attendees with valuable insights into the latest trends in the rapidly growing fields of A...
This week, NCC Serbia took part in the INFOFEST 2024 conference in Budva, Montenegro. We were invited by Hewlett Packard Enterprise operated by Selectium, to share our perspective on the future of AI in our region, empowered by supercomputing. Dr. Dusan Vudragovic from the Institute of Physics B...
The EuroHPC JU is now offering access to its world-class supercomputers for AI and data-intensive projects through a specific access call. SMEs, startups, industry, and public sector entities can apply for compute time on top European systems for AI, machine learning, and data-driven research. The...
The EuroCC and Centre of Excellence network has launched a new podcast called Supercomputing in Europe. The podcast covers various aspects of supercomputers, including their applications, significance in research and development, upcoming technologies, and the relationship between AI and supercomput...
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-per...
After successfully setting up the PARADOX-V machine earlier this year, we are now preparing for a GPU upgrade of the PARADOX-V cluster this summer. This upgrade has been made possible thanks to the CTRUST grant from the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, which was awarded to Dr. Marija Mi...
FFplus is the continuation of the previous Fortissimo projects (Fortissimo 1 and 2, FF4EuroHPC). These projects directly tackled the barriers for SMEs by using HPC, HPDA, or AI to optimize or develop products and processes. The aim was to enhance the global competitiveness of European industry.
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The ChEESE Tsunami and Meteo-Tsunami Modelling Training Course, which took place on 13 and 14 May 2024, is now available to watch online as a two-part series.
This training course covers the fundamentals and numerical techniques for modeling and simulating tsunamis and meteo-tsunamis. The webina...
This week at the ISC High Performance 2024 conference in Hamburg, Germany, the new TOP500 list was revealed. The big news is the announcement of a second exascale machine, the second American exascale machine. The Aurora supercomputer, located in the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, ha...
On 19 April 2024, HPC Serbia participated in The Power of Data conference, which was organized by Hewlett Packard Enterprise operated by Selectium in Belgrade. Dr. Antun Balaž, the deputy director and research professor at the Institute of Physics Belgrade, presented the role of HPC in academia,...
EuroCC2's national competence center in Sweden (ENCCS), along with the Wallenberg Centre of Quantum Technologies (WACQT) and the Nordic/Baltic NordIQuEst project, organized a three-day quantum computing school last autumn. This event inspired mathematical physicist Martin N. P. Nilsson to c...
Cerebra Systems designed the biggest computer chip in the world, and it uses whole silicon wafers instead of cutting them up into smaller chips. Naturally, the chip is called the Wafer Scale Engine (WSE), and its third generation was recently released. The WSE-3 is the same physical size as previ...
National Competence Centre for HPC in the Czech Republic and the Quantum Computing Laboratory at IT4Innovation have prepared a series of five advanced quantum computing seminars that will be held throughout 2024. Lecturers will teach the theoretical foundations and practical implementation of qua...
Yesterday, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) inaugurated the MareNostrum 5, a new supercomputer that is considered one of the most complete and versatile machines in the world. It is also the only supercomputer with two systems on the list of the 20 most powerful supercomputers globally...
HPC Serbia, EuroCC2’s National Competence Center (NCC) for High-Performance Computing (HPC), relies on the experiences of our colleagues from other NCCs to build the center that promotes and supports the usage of HPC in academia, industry, and the public sector. CSC - IT Center for Science, a me...
Last week, representatives from Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Serbia, Mirjana Ivčević and Đorđe Ristić, visited HPC Serbia at the Institute of Physics Belgrade. During the visit, we presented the aims and objectives of the EuroCC2 project, as well as other HPC-related projects established by Eu...
The 62nd edition of the TOP500 list was released on 13 November 2023. The TOP500 project ranks and provides details of the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems globally. The project was initiated back in 1993 and updates the list of supercomputers twice a year, in June and November...
The second round of FF4EuroHPC success stories has been officially published. These stories are the outcome of experiments that started in February 2022 and concluded in May 2023, resulting in the creation of 26 innovative success stories. The stories showcase the benefits and impact that HPC, AI,...
We attended the two-day HPC Industry Summit in Berlin last week, which was organized jointly by FF4EuroHPC and EuroCC 2. Both of these related projects are coordinated by the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) which was our host. During the event, our colleagues from the FF4E...
We have successfully completed the tendering process for the fifth upgrade of the PARADOX cluster during this summer. This upgrade has been made possible by the SCLoTHiFi ERC grant awarded to Dr. Jakša Vučičević from the Scientific Computing Laboratory of the Institute of Physics Belgrade (I...
Last month, we worked together with the German Organization for International Cooperation (GIZ) in Serbia to upgrade the UPS system of the PARADOX cluster. This was made possible through GIZ's program for workplace equipment subsidies for returning experts. Dr. Sonja Predin applied for this gran...
On Monday this week, we had a pleasant online discussion with our colleagues from the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (IICT), a partner in the National Competence Center in Bulgaria. We have collaborated on various ICT-related projects over the last two decades. Nowadays,...
We attended the training workshop for EOSC Future in North Macedonia last week. The workshop took place in the scenic resort town of Ohrid, situated on the shores of Lake Ohrid. Around 100 Western Balkans and Ukraine participants discussed EOSC-related topics at the 3-day event. The sessions were...
The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) launched a call to support the Competitiveness and Innovation Potential of SMEs. The submission deadline for the call is 7 November 2023, 17:00 (CET).
The objective of this call (DIGITAL-EUROHPC-JU-2023-SME-01) is to empo...
Our September calendar is packed with HPC (High-Performance Computing) online trainings and workshops. Check the schedule and register early to secure your spot:
LUMI is the fastest supercomputer in Europe and the third fastest globally, according to the Top500 list published in June 2023. It is situated on the premises of a former paper mill in Kajaani, Finland. Placing the machine on the grounds of a former paper mill significantly reduced the carbon...
The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) project Inno4scale has issued a call for proposals for innovation studies relating to algorithms for exascale computing. The deadline for submissions is on 28 September 2023. The Inno4scale project will be hosting webinar...
In the near future, we plan to publish a series of blog posts regarding the European Centers of Excellence (CoE) for High-Performance Computing (HPC) Applications. CoEs encourage the utilization of upcoming exascale and extreme performance computing capabilities, as well as enhancing the scaling per...
HPC Serbia, EuroCC2’s National Competence Center (NCC) for High-Performance Computing (HPC), is the newest member of the network of HPC NCCs within the EuroCC2 project. In our efforts to build a center that promotes and supports the usage of HPC in academia, industry, and the public sector, we rel...
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking recently signed agreements with six European sites to host and operate quantum computers. These computers will enable European users to experiment with various quantum technologies alongside top supercomputers.
The six new EuroHPC quantum computers will be integrated int...
Today (on 30 June 2023), Mihailo Jovanović, the Minister of Information and Telecommunications for the Government of the Republic of Serbia, signed an agreement for Serbia's participation in the Digital Europe program. Following the signatures and upon the completion of the related ratification...
The European master for High-Performance Computing application deadline is on 15 July 2023, but there is still sufficient time to apply. Serbia has recently become a member of the EuroHPC consortium, and therefore we are not currently listed as one of the eligible countries. However, it has be...
The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU jointly announced that Linköping University in Sweden has been chosen to host Arrhenius, the upcoming mid-range supercomputer.
Arrhenius will be a high-performance compute...
We are pleased to inform you that the materials from the recent EuroCC2 workshops are now available for access. This includes the slides and videos from the Developing HPC Applications with AMD GPUs workshop held from 2 May to 5 May 2023, and the SambaNova systems AI platform webinar held on 22...
You can now access the first EuroCC2 success stories booklet. Successful experiments have been conducted using the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking supercomputers. Each experiment presented unique challenges, solutions, and business impacts and benefits.
We hope you enjoy your reading experience.
Data Science Conference (DSC) is one of the leading franchises dedicated to data science and artificial intelligence (AI) worldwide. It is the place where you can find both professional academy representatives and decision-makers. The program content is tailored in such a way to fit the various nee...
EuroCC2 is introducing a new series of events called the Industrial Code of the Month. The purpose of these events is to showcase industry-relevant high-performance computing(HPC), high-performance data analytics (HPDA), and artificial intelligence (AI) codes maintained by the Centers of Excell...
The second phase of EuroCC has started, with the project commencing on 1 January 2023. The kick-off meeting took place at the Filderhalle in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, near Stuttgart, from 7 to 9 February 2023. With the start of a new three-year grant, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) h...
