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The National HPC Competence Centre at Data & AI Warsaw Tech Summit 2025
11/04/2025
On April 9th, 2025, representatives of the Polish EuroCC consortium took part in the Data & AI Warsaw Tech Summit 2025, one of the country’s leading events focused on data, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies. The National HPC Competence Centre was represented at the event by Marta Maj (ACK Cyfronet AGH) and Joanna Jędraszczyk (ICM, University of Warsaw).
Our booth attracted strong interest throughout the day. Visitors were especially drawn to a live demo of parallelized mathematical computations running on a Raspberry Pi – a small device that made a big impact. The event provided a great opportunity to raise awareness of the HPC ecosystem in Poland and to engage in direct conversations about its potential.
Key topics discussed at the booth included:
♦ Access to national supercomputing resources and the European ones e.g. LUMI,
♦ Collaboration opportunities with HPC centers in Poland,
♦ Support for researchers in accessing specialized data platforms and licensed scientific software,
♦ Use of HPC infrastructure for GPU and CPU-based computations,
♦ The scope of support available for companies, including help in developing and deploying computational models,
♦ Training opportunities in Poland and across the EuroHPC JU network.
Some attendees were already familiar with Poland’s HPC centers and were eager to learn more, while others were discovering these capabilities for the first time. Many expressed appreciation that such advanced infrastructure and services are available locally.
Visitors who received our handout were also invited to take part in a special contest – by scanning the QR code, they can enter to win a guided tour of one of Poland’s high-performance computing centers.
Our representatives at the Warsaw IT Days 2025
07/04/2025
On Saturday, April 5th, 2025, representatives of the The National HPC Competence Centre took part in Warsaw IT Days — one of the largest and most influential tech events in Poland. We proudly hosted our own booth, aiming to raise awareness about High Performance Computing (HPC) and its real-world applications.
Over the course of the day, we handed out more than 450 leaflets, using each interaction as an opportunity to talk directly with attendees — whether one-on-one or in small groups. We explained the basics of HPC using a physical server on display to show how computing clusters are built for maximum performance.
A major highlight of the booth was a demonstration cluster made of 8 Raspberry Pi devices, assembled especially for the event. With its blinking lights and compact structure, it drew plenty of attention and sparked curiosity among visitors, who stopped by to learn how it works.
We also showcased educational video content, which helped tell the story of HPC and the EUROCC initiative in an engaging and accessible way. Thanks to a strong team effort, our booth saw high engagement and left us with a sense of accomplishment and great energy.
We’d like to thank everyone who visited us, asked questions, and showed interest in supercomputing.
And a quick reminder to those who received our leaflet — don’t forget to scan the QR code to enter our contest for a chance to win a guided tour of our supercomputing centre!
On-site training „Building RAG Agents with LLMs”
07/03/2025
Join the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute Workshop!
Date: March 17, 2025, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Location: Kraków, Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology
Format: In-person
Language: English
Are you eager to explore the power of RAG agents and Large Language Models?
Looking for hands-on knowledge on building intelligent systems using LLMs? This workshop is for you!
During this full-day session, you will:
– Learn advanced LLM orchestration techniques and dialogue management
– Discover how to effectively use LangChain, Gradio, and LangServe
– Implement information retrieval and semantic similarity
– Earn an NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute certificate
Technical requirements:
Intermediate Python skills and basic knowledge of deep learning. Participants should bring their own laptops. The course is accessed via a web browser, with no need for local software installation.
Instructor: Szymon Mazurek, Cyfronet
This is an in-person event only. Please register only if you can attend in Cracow.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Register to N-Ways to GPU Programming Bootcamp
03/03/2025
Together with NVIDIA and OpenACC organization a group of NCCs (Austria, Czechia, Germany, Montenegro, Poland, Slovenia, and Sweden) is organizing a couple of Bootcamps for the European HPC and AI user community and the first event is coming soon.
N-Ways to GPU Programming Bootcamp
8–9 April 2025, 09:00–16:00 CEST, online
Explore four different GPU programming models in just one and a half days. The N-Ways to GPU Programming Bootcamp covers the basics of GPU programming and provides an overview of different methods for porting scientific applications to GPUs using NVIDIA CUDA, OpenACC and OpenMP offloading, and standard languages (C/C++ and Fortran).
Throughout the bootcamp, attendees with teaching assistants on hand will explore multiple GPU programming models, learn how to analyze GPU-enabled applications using NVIDIA Nsight Systems, and participate in hands-on activities to apply these learned skills to real-world problems.
The lectures will be given by Paul Graham from NVIDIA and teaching assistants from the organizing NCCs will help you with the hands-on labs done on one of their supercomputers.
The bootcamp is open to all coming from institutions in EU and/or EuroHPC JU countries and welcomes participants from academia, industry, and public administration.
Application deadline: March 10th, 2025.
National Competence Centre in HPC – Empowering Your Innovation – video release
28/02/2025
How can the potential of supercomputers translate into tangible benefits for science and business?
How can advanced computational technologies lead to breakthrough discoveries?
How to boost innovations?
In our latest video, we tackle these questions and invite you to immerse yourself in the world of large-scale computing.
The National Competence Center for HPC is a space where vision meets technology, and innovative ideas are transformed into impactful solutions.
What do we offer?
♦ Access to powerful computational resources – tailored to the needs of science, industry, and business.
♦ Free training and workshops – from the basics of HPC to advanced AI techniques and data analysis.
♦ Expert support and consultations – in modelling, optimization, and leveraging cutting-edge technologies.
Watch the video and discover how HPC can elevate your projects to the next level!
EUROHPC SUMMIT 2025 – join the most important HPC event in Europe
17/02/2025
EuroHPC Summit is one of the most important events in Europe dedicated to High Performance Computing (HPC). This annual conference brings together experts, researchers, industry leaders, and policymakers to discuss the development of supercomputing and its applications in science, industry, and the public sector.
The 2025 edition will take place on March 18-20 at the ICE Congress Centre in Cracow (Poland), offering a unique opportunity to participate in this prestigious conference in Poland. Participation is free of charge.
Key Goals of EuroHPC Summit:
♦ Showcasing the latest advancements in HPC, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing
♦ Facilitating knowledge exchange between researchers, industry, and policymakers
♦ Discussing strategies and the future of the European HPC ecosystem
♦ Encouraging networking and collaboration at the European level
The event is organized as part of the EuroHPC JU (European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking) initiative, which aims to build a world-class supercomputing ecosystem in Europe. EuroHPC JU supports the development of new technologies, computing infrastructure, and applications that drive progress in fields such as medicine, climate science, engineering, and more.
Representatives from NCC Poland at EBDVF 2024
Representatives from NCC Poland took part in the flagship event of BDVA organization – European Big Data Value Forum. The gathering brought together top experts in AI and HPC, sparking in-depth discussions on Europe’s competitiveness in the AI landscape.
Mateusz Tykierko from the Wroclaw Center of Networking and Supercomputing participated in a panel discussion on “How to make AI factories the enabler of European competitiveness.” Mateusz highlighted NCC’s role as an HPC provider and its educational initiatives. Both business and academia can consult with us on how to effectively leverage computational power—in other words, we teach how to use supercomputers efficiently. In summary, the HPC community is ready and open to collaborating with the AI sector—together, we can achieve more.
New Poland Open Hackathon date
Hackathon date has changed! We would like to invite you to the “Poland Open Hackathon” organized on October 22-31, 2024 by the Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH in cooperation with PLGrid Infrastructure, Polish National Competence Centre in HPC, and NVIDIA.
The goal of the Open Hackathon is for computational scientists to port, accelerate, and optimize their scientific applications to modern computer architectures, including CPUs, GPUs, and other computing technologies. Participating teams should leave the event either with their applications accelerated and/or optimized on the latest supercomputing hardware or with a clear roadmap of the next steps needed to leverage these resources.
This hackathon is open to everyone looking to take their projects to the next level; however, priority acceptance will be given to PLGrid-affiliated scientists and their collaborators. We highly encourage users from the industry level and public administration to participate in this event.
More details about the event and the registration form (deadline: August 26, 2024) can be found HERE.
More information on this web page.
Please do not hesitate to contact if you have any questions at training@it4i.cz.
POP3 Profiling and Optimisation Tools – 46th VI-HPS Tuning Workshop
The POP3 CoE, NCC Austria, NCC Czechia, NCC Hungary, NCC Poland, NCC Slovakia and NCC Slovenia are inviting you to the POP3 Profiling and Optimisation Tools Workshop, which will be held online and onsite on September 4–6, 2024.
This workshop focuses on tools and methodologies for performance analysis, debugging, and tuning through collaborative learning, particularly for teams working on similar codes.
The first day introduces the POP Centre of Excellence (CoE) and its performance assessment tools. Day two covers open-source multi-platform tools for MPI+OpenMP on CPUs, while day three focuses on advanced usage for CPU and GPU architectures. Participants will learn to use Paraver/Extrae for tracing and analysis and Scalasca/Score-P/CUBE for integrated performance analysis and tuning. Additional POP CoE tools will also be available.
Date: 4–6 September 2024, 9 am to 5 pm
Registration deadline: 28 August 2024
Venue: online via Zoom, on-site at IT4Innovations
Language: English.
About collaboriation at the ASHPC 2024
NCC Poland representatives took part in Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2024 (#ASHPC24). The conference was held in the picturesque lakeside town of Grundlsee in the Austrian region of Styria from June 10-13, 2024, and was dedicated to supercomputing, large-scale computing and artificial intelligence.
The #ASHPC24 brings together supercomputing professionals from Central Europe. It’s an opportunity to exchange experiences and discuss the latest trends in HPC, or large-scale computing, and their application in both science and industry. It’s also an opportunity to develop cooperation between national HPC competence centers.
Beata Krawczyk-Bryłka, PhD of CI TASK presented the concept of coopetition on the ground of national HPC competence centers in a poster session. Co-opetition is the cooperation of institutions that usually compete with each other. Meanwhile, Wiktor Nastał from WCSS spoke about automating access to OpenID Connect services from Linux systems.
