Open Workshop, April 23, 2021, organized by EuroCC-Bulgaria

The EuroCC project (National Competence Centers within EuroHPC JU), funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 program and co-funded by the Ministry of Education and Science – Bulgaria aims to create a network of national competence centers in HPC (High Performance Computing), HPDA (High Performance Data Analytics) and AI (Artificial Intelligence) in 33 European countries.

The EuroCC-Bulgaria will organize a series of workshops presenting the project activities and results. The first workshop, open for general participation, was held on April 23 and presented the EuroCC project, the methodology for competence mapping, the results of the initial surveys performed by the project, and several large projects related to high-performance computing and Big Data processing.

Open workshop agenda:

14:00 – 14:15 Opening (Prof. G. Angelova, Director of IICT-BAS, Prof. A. Karaivanova, Leader of EuroCC-Bulgaria)

14:15 – 14:30 EuroHPC JU and the participation of Bulgaria (Prof. I. Dimov – Ministry of Education and Science, EuroHPC Board member)

14:30 – 14:50 EuroCC – goals, tasks, results (Prof. A. Karaivanova, Leader of EuroCC-Bulgaria)

14: 50 – 15:50 Presentation of large projects in the field:

• • Centre of Excellence for Informatics and ICT (Prof. S. Margenov – IICT-BAS, project director)
  • Centre of Excellence UNITe (Prof. K. Stefanov – Sofia University, project director)
  • Centre Competence for Digitalization of Economics in the Big Data Environment (Prof. V. Kisimov – UNWE, project director)
  • National Centre for High Performance and Distributed Computing, object of the National Roadmap for RIs (Prof. A. Karaivanova – IICT-BAS, project coordinator)

15:50 – 16:20 HPC Competence Mapping methodology (Prof. E. Atanasov, Deputy Coordinator EuroCC-Bulgaria)

16:20 – 16:50 Discussion

16:50 – 17:00 Closing