National Competence Centre for HPC at ITAPA
The 19th edition of the largest IT conference in Slovakia – ITAPA– took place on December 7 – 9, 2020. The EuroCC project and the National Competence centre for HPC was presented by Lukáš Demovič, director of the Centre of Operations of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Chairman of the Board of the National Supercumputing centre (NSCC).
In his presentation, L. Demovič introduced the scope and goals of the EuroCC project and underlined the importance of HPC in many areas, such as innovations, digitalization and transformation of industry. The National competence centre for HPC provides services for SMEs, industry, public and academic sector and enables them to utilize HPC, AI HPDA and ML tools in their business or research.
The newly founded National supercomputing centre (NSCC) was established in 2020 as a consortium of the Centre of Operations SAS, the Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic and the I4DI organization. The NSCC is expected to cooperate closely with the NCC for HPC.
The importance and role of the basic and applied research in the transformation of industry was debated by L. Demovič during a discussion panel together with other participants, including the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of the Slovak Republic, Richard Sulík.
We are convinced that the EuroCC project will play a key role in overcoming barriers in introducing HPC/HPDA/AI solutions during the informatization and digitalization process and will increase the competence level in these areas in Slovakia significantly.
More info about the EuroCC project
Industry 4.0 discussion panel 
Lukáš Demovič about how European supercomputers promote innovation 
Industry 4.0 discussion panel 
Panel discussion: The Road to Industry 4.0: Richard Sulík (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of the Slovak Republic Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic), Peter Blaškovitš (SIEA), Lukáš Demovič (COO SAS and Chairman of the NSCC Board), Emil Fitoš (ITAS), and Eva Stejskalová (MicroStep)
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