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From 18 to 21 March 2024, the EuroHPC Summit 2024 was held in Antwerp, Belgium, under the auspices of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU. This year’s Summit attracted over 700 participants, with more than 650 attending in person. Various stakeholders across the European HPC ecosystem, including

On February 27, 2024 the Intelligent IT 2024: Shaping the Future of Technology and Business forum took place at Sofia Event Center. The event was organized by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, operated by Selectium and provided a special chance for IT professionals, business leaders, and tech enthusiasts to acquire practical knowledge,

On January 25, 2024, a roundtable discussion on the topic “What is the truth about the status of the brown bear (Ursus arctos L.) in Bulgaria? Trends, problems, and possible solutions” took place at the Hunter’s House in Sofia. The event was organized by the National Hunting and Fishing Association

In October 2023, the new petascale supercomputer HEMUS came into operation at IICT-BAS. The HEMUS supercomputer has a peak (theoretical) performance of over 3 PetaFlops, 148 servers (distributed in two subsystems) and non-blocking InfiniBand connectivity. The universal multi-core processor subsystem consists of 128 dual-processor HPE ProLiant XL220n Gen10 Plus servers

The annual HPC user forum in Bulgaria took place in Sofia Tech Park on November 16th, 2023. In the past three years, the Forum was organised by the National Competence Centre for High Performance Computing in Bulgaria (NCC Bulgaria), established within the framework of project EuroCC – “National Competence Centres

The “European Entrepreneurship Day 2023 (EED-2023)” took place in the hall of the Representation of the European Commission in Sofia on November 8th 2023. This is a traditional event for Sofia University and was held for the 21st time. The theme of EED-2023 was “Artificial intelligence and green policies in

The cooperation with the company PHOENIX Pharma EOOD kicked off with several meetings that were organized in order to discuss the tasks on which the company needs consultations from the NCC Bulgaria team. The company is part of the PHOENIX Group, a leading pharmaceutical distributor in Europe, supplying medicines and

“Train-the-trainers” event was held on 14th of September to present the new Petascale supercomputer at IICT-BAS, just delivered in the framework of the project Centre for Excellence for Informatics and Information and Communication Technologies, funded by the Operational program Science and Education for Smart Growth. The supercomputer HEMUS (High pErformance

On the 26th of September this year, a fruitful online meeting was held between representatives of the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (IICT) – the leading partner in the National Competence Center (NCC Bulgaria) and representatives of the Institute of Physics Belgrade (IPB) – the leading partner of NCC Serbia.

On June 28, 2023, a workshop on “High-performance computing for mathematics and its applications” was held in the IMI-BAN building (8 “Akad. G. Bonchev” str.) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Innovative mathematical applications and developed algorithms working on the Avitohol supercomputer were presented. Innovative computational techniques and case studies