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.
SIESTA School 2025
The SIESTA School 2025 is a comprehensive online event scheduled to take place from 17 to 21 November 2025. It is designed for students and researchers in materials science who use or plan to use the SIESTA software for electronic-structure calculations and ab initio molecular dynamics.
Quantum Autumn School 2025
The National Competence Center in Sweden (ENCCS), together with EuroCC Denmark and EuroCC Lithuania, will host the well-established Quantum Autumn School from 3 to 7 November 2025. This event will be held in a hybrid format, offering a great opportunity to learn about the latest developments in quantum computing.
Last week, HPC Serbia participated in the all-hands meeting of the CASTIEL 2, EuroCC 2, and EuroCC4SEE projects, which bring together National Competence Centers (NCCs) and Centers of Excellence (CoEs) in HPC across Europe. Over three lively days, from 23 to 25 September 2025, attendees ce...
Dr. Marija Mitrovic Dankulov from HPC Serbia attended the 6th International Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering (CMBEBIH 2025) in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina last week. The conference, organized by the Bosnia and Herzegovina Medical and Biological Engineering Society (DMBIUBIH)...
Last Wednesday, Marija Mitrovic Dankulov and Dusan Vudragovic from HPC Serbia attended the NextSilicon event at their office in Belgrade. NextSilicon is a deep-tech startup developing the next generation of Intelligent Compute Architecture (ICA) for high-performance computing (HPC). We were excite...
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.
The SIESTA School 2025 is a comprehensive online event scheduled to take place from 17 to 21 November 2025. It is designed for students and researchers in materials science who use or plan to use the SIESTA software for electronic-structure calculations and ab initio molecular dynamics. The prog...
The Austrian Scientific Computing (ASC) research center, in collaboration with NCC Austria, is organizing a two-day online course on CUDA programming for NVIDIA GPUs. The training will take place from 22 to 23 October 2025, and will be conducted via Zoom. It will feature lectures, demonstra...
The training event scheduled for 28 to 30 October 2025 targets scientists, researchers, and practitioners looking to enhance their skills in porting, optimizing, and profiling codes on AMD systems. Organized by AMD and NCC France, the course will be conducted online, enabling participants to a...
France's NCC is teaming up with AMD to host an online four-half-day training on scaling AI with AMD from 13 to 16 October 2025. This program offers a structured approach for AI researchers, data scientists, and practitioners to learn how to efficiently run and scale AI workloads on AMD GPUs. It...
Our colleagues from NCC Lithuania and NCC Latvia are organizing an online workshop on using HPC resources in MATLAB on 19 September 2025. HPC experts will show how to connect to one of Europe's largest supercomputers, Karolina, and explain how to speed up MATLAB calculations using an HPC c...
Following a summer break, NCC Czechia is restarting its Quantum Computing Seminar series. The next seminar will be held in a hybrid format on 25 September 2025, and will focus on Quantum Gate Neural Networks.
Specifically, the seminar will delve into using neural networks within quantum comput...
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.
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...
While we wait for PARADOX-V to become fully operational, let's recall the story behind the name of the first installation of the PARADOX cluster. We approached Dr. Aleksandar Belic, one of the founders of the Scientific Computing Laboratory at the Institute of Physics Belgrade (IPB), which hou...
Supercomputing in Europe Podcast
