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Information stands of EU member states, the European Parliament and the European Commission were available to the general public. The event also featured the stand of the National Competence Centre for High-Performance Computing (NCC for HPC). The NCC team presented the activities and services of the National Competence Centre for HPC. Through an interactive demonstration of simulations of potential drugs against the Covid-19 disease, we brought the participants closer to what calculations supercomputers can be used for. During the event, Lucia Demovičová spoke on stage and presented the National Competence Centre for HPC to the public. She explained how the competence centre can help scientists, researchers, and also small and medium-sized entrepreneurs. She also presented successful examples of cooperation with the private and public sector and invited participants to our information stand.

„Cooperation between countries based on peace, freedom and mutual respect is not a matter of course even today. Let us therefore appreciate that Slovakia can be part of the European Union, which protects these values. Since European elections await us next year, the Europe Day celebrations will also be an evaluation of what European democracy has brought us in practice over the past four years. The events will focus on specific results of the European Parliament's work in areas such as EU energy independence, internet security, defense of democracy, support for Ukraine and fair transformation of the economy in the fight against climate change,"  said the head of the EP Office in Slovakia, Robert Sermek.

„Every year on May 9, we celebrate the achievements and unity of Europe. The signing of the Schuman Declaration in 1950 laid the foundations for cooperation between European countries and today's European Union. Slovaks do not want to be foreigners in Europe, it is our home, and therefore Europe Day is also a great opportunity to celebrate our common European identity across all member states. The symbolism of this day confirms the unity of Europeans and at the same time expresses the beauty of a number of different cultures, languages and traditions that benefit the entire European Union and all Europeans",“  uviedol vedúci Zastúpenia Európskej komisie na Slovensku Vladimír Šucha. 

Europe Day celebrations in Bratislava were organized by the Representation of the European Commission in Slovakia, the Office of the European Parliament in Slovakia, the European Labor Authority, the European Investment Bank, the European Fund for Regional Development and Stará tržnica.The visitors enjoyed the workshops, competitions, but also the accompanying program moderated by Ján Gordulič. The celebrations culminated in Jana Kirschner's evening concert.

You can watch the video of the event HERE.

The workshop is targeting specifically code developers and will be focused on code optimisation. Participants are encouraged to bring their own codes to learn about techniques, methods and solutions on how to improve them both in terms of performance and in terms of scalability across multiple platforms.

What are the main goals of this workshop?

• Increasing practical experience in performance, power consumption, and energy efficiency in HPC systems.
• Helping participants to optimise codes to make sure the implementation match their HPC objectives;
• Provide hands-on experience with practical QMC simulations based on CHAMP code.

What can you expect from the workshop?

• During the first day,participants will work together with experts from the Austrian Competence Center for HPC on advanced parallel programming (MPI+X).
• The second day of the program will be devoted to the analysis of the performance of parallel applications, the measurement of energy consumption and the evaluation of energy efficiency on HPC systems under the guidance of experts from the Czech Competence Center for HPC.
• On the last day, participants will explore and analyze the main bottlenecks in node-level application optimization: vectorization, code quality, locality and parallelism. Participants will work under the guidance of experts from TREX CoE.

All topics will be covered in lectures as well as in practical hands-on sessions.The workshop will take place F2F at the SAV campus on Patrónka in Bratislava. Full programme of the workshop will be available in the coming weeks.

The workshop is targeting developers and advanced HPC users with experience in parallel programming and C and/or C++ and/or Fortran programming languages.

Attendees are kindly requested to bring their own laptop.

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During the lecture we will talk about:

• What are modern language models and how are they created?
• How these models can be used practically?
• How much does it cost to train and operate such models?
• Aké sú očakávania od NLP v budúcnosti.

The event will take place online on April 3 from 5:00 p.m.
The number of places is limited and registration mandatory.

Company niore Energy s.r.o. is focused on the production and storage of clean energy. Experts from niore Energy s.r.o. are plan to become part of the world's electrical grid solution and contribute to global goals by turning ocean waves into electricity and utilizing water for energy storage. This patent-pending concept is based on a floating ring on the ocean's surface. This ring enables the transformation of oscillating motion into rotary motion, which is the motion that generates the most electricity efficiently. The bigger the diameter of the ring, the more sturdy it is against ocean waves, and the more energy we can collect from a broader surface area. Energy Storage, which is also a rotating device floating on the ocean's surface, will serve as the cornerstone for the storage of clean energy, by converting extra electricity into kinetic energy. You can find more information about Energy HUB technologies HEREDuring the presentation of this research project, M. Novák also gave a demonstration of their technology.

Research project Use of wave energy for the third generation WEC is supported by Norwegian grants and the state budget of the Slovak republic.

Source: https://www.nioreenergy.com/
Pictures: Pavol Novák

Nasledovať bude inštalácia linuxového operačného systému a nástrojov pre manažment systému, manažment dát a súborového systému, ako aj mnohým požívateľom známy nástroj na manažment úloh Slurm. Napokon sa nainštaluje ekosystém pre aplikácie a vývoj softvéru, teda bežné matematické knižnice a kompilátory. Pred samotným prebratím Devany od dodávateľa prebehne prvé testovanie v réžii Výpočtového strediska SAV. Testy budú zahŕňať aj tzv. Linpack, čo je súbor štandardizovaných numerických úloh, ktorého výsledkom je definícia výkonu v jednotkách Flop/s, teda počet aritmetických operácií, ktoré superpočítač vykoná za sekundu. Najvýkonnejší počítač v Európe – LUMI – má výkon 309 PFlop/s, čo je 309×10¹⁵ operácií. Teoretický predpokladaný výkon Devany je okolo 800 TFlop/s, teda 800×10¹² operácií za sekundu. Testovať sa bude aj rýchlosť čítania a zápisu dát z dátových úložísk. Napokon sa vykonajú záťažové testy, kedy sa na všetkých výpočtových uzloch spustia aplikácie vyžadujúce plný výkon procesorov a plnú operačnú pamäť. Test bude prebiehať približne 48 hodín a preverí sa ním stabilita systému a kapacita chladenia.

Po ukončení a vyhodnotení testov, ktoré predpokladáme začiatkom decembra, budeme môcť sprístupniť Devanu pre používateľov. Pri tejto príležitosti pripravujeme aj nový portál, ktorý bude slúžiť na podávanie, hodnotenie a manažment projektov a používateľov.

Text: Lucia Demovičová
Pictures: Pavol Novák

Hopero is dedicated to 3 main goals:

• Promotion of digital technologies related to artificial intelligence (AI).
• Supporting the SMEs in access to private and EU funding necessary for adoption of all digital technologies, focusing specifically on SMEs in the regions.
• Development of the digital innovation ecosystem in Slovakia.

Hopero will help you implement digital transformation and teach you how to search funds for your projects.

Hopero Consortium:

•  Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies.
• SAPIE.
• COO SAS and Computing Centre.
• CIVITTA Slovakia.

More information about Hopero can be found HERE.

The so-called phasing, i.e. the renewal of the HPC infrastructure so that the life cycles of at least 2 systems overlap, is a common tool for ensuring the continuous availability of adequate computing resources for users. In Slovakia, however, since 2014, when the Aurel supercomputer was expanded, a significant investment debt has arisen in this area. Aurel, which has been shut down since April 2021, will be replaced by Devana, which we want to make available before the end of the year.

You can find a comparison of Aurel and Devana parameters in this year's issue HPC Focus.

Who will be able to use Devana supercomputer?

Scientists and researchers from Slovak universities and SAS institutes will be able to apply for free access, computing capacity will be allocated to individual projects in a grant competition with peer-review assessment.

There is an offer of cooperation with the National Competence Center for HPC available especially for small and medium-sized enterprises and the possibility of implementing free pilot and proof-of-concept projects with the help of experts.

The computing resources will also be available commercially.

When will Devana be available to users?

Installation and thorough testing of the system will take place in the coming weeks. In December, we plan to launch the possibility of submitting the projects for testing and benchmarking. The first call for standard projects will be published early next year.

Text: Lucia Demovičová

During the event at the stand of the National Competence Center for High-Performance Computing, participants had the opportunity to participate in a competition for a reMarkable tablet. The purpose of the competition was to find the object with the least air resistance with entry restrictions set by NCC for HPC experts.

Competition statute

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The last Friday of September in Bratislava's Stara tržnica belonged to the European night of researchers. Also at the 16th year of this event, visitors had the opportunity to learn more about supercomputers and high-performance computing. Experts from the National Competence Center for High-Performance Computing (HPC) welcomed a number of curious visitors of various age groups to their stand, who were interested in supercomputers and their practical use. The team of the competence center briefly introduced NCC for HPC to the interested parties and, through a demonstration of one of the methods used in HPC, introduced the use of supercomputers in practice.

The motto of the 16th year was Trust science which encourages the audience, and especially young people, to activity and experiential learning. Through experiments and interactive demonstrations, they showed the participants that there are scientific explanations and principles behind all the phenomena around us and events in nature. The aim of the Night of Researchers was to encourage young people and the general public to try simple experiments at home and through them get to know science and the people behind it better.

The Science Festival European Night of Researchers is a project financially supported by the framework program of the European Commission for the support of research, development and innovation - Horizon Europe, in the part - Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions under the number 101060946. The European Night of Researchers originated from the initiative of the European Commission and is organized in parallel in 30 states of Europe. 

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