The second day of the EuroCC4SEE Workshop in Belgrade began with a session focused on SMEs, while the afternoon session included presentations on the use of HPC in public administration. Marija Mitrović Dankulov from the Institute of Physics Belgrade opened the session with an overview of HPC Ser...
The EuroCC4SEE Workshop in Belgrade started today with welcome messages given by Dr. Nadja Schauffler from the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Dr. Antun Balaž from the Institute of Physics Belgrade, and Prof. Miloš Cvetanović from the University of Belgrade School of Electrical Eng...
HPC Serbia, together with the EuroCC4SEE national competence centers from Türkiye, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, is hosting an exciting online seminar series called 5 Beats of Intelligence: AI Meets Diverse Domains. In this series, each country will host a dedicat...
What HPC skills do you need? We want to hear from you! Please assist us in understanding the training needs of companies and organizations across Europe by completing this brief survey. The survey remains open until 10 May 2025.
The survey’s primary goal is to gather insights from European com...
On 12 Mar 2025, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) selected six new sites across Europe to host additional AI Factories, which are set to be deployed next year in Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Poland, and Slovenia.
France and Germany will establish AI Factories, which operate alo...
Last week, we had the opportunity to visit our colleagues from NCC Montenegro and attend the IT 2025 conference in Žabljak, Montenegro. The conference attracted over 100 students from across the country. During the event, several sessions were organized focusing on EuroCC2 and EuroCC4SEE. Alon...
NCC France, in collaboration with LAPP (Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules), is organizing the third Gray Scott School, now for the first time in English. This summer school on HPC will focus on programming and optimization for heterogeneous architectures. The school is named after...
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has selected the sites that will host the first European AI Factories, which are set to be deployed next year across Europe: in Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, and Sweden.
Five selected hosting sites will deploy brand-new AI-optimize...
The latest 64th editions of the TOP500 and Green500 lists were released this Monday, 18 November 2024, at the Supercomputing Conference SC in Atlanta, USA. All operational EuroHPC supercomputers have been ranked among the top 266 supercomputers worldwide. The EuroHPC is also committed to p...
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.
...
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...