Past Events

Intel, Bayncore and STFC/ Daresbury Laboratory, together with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA-BG), announces training course “Enabling Software Scalability and Performance on Intel Xeon and Xeon Phi Platforms”, which will take place on December 15-17 in Sofia at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. For more information click here

The 11th Annual Meeting of the Bulgarian Section of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) was held on 20-22 December 2016 in Sofia. The purpose of the meeting was to promote interdisciplinary collaboration and the role of applied mathematics in technology and industry, by presenting and discussing applications of mathematics to science and engineering. As part of the scientific programme, Assoc. Prof. Emanouil Atanassov from IICT-BAS presented a talk “Advanced services for Virtual Research Environments”. More information is available here

The VI-SEEM Digital Cultural Heritage regional training will be held on 6-8 February 2017 in Biblioteca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt. Objective: This interactive course will introduce participants to VI-SEEM e-Infrastructure services, and then focus on the advanced techniques in 3D scanning and imaging for digital cultural heritage applications. Please, register here For the agenda, logistics and more information click here

The course is organized by NCSA in assistance with Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)  and Bayncore. This is a follow up of the series of training events at NCSA that will focus on training practical skills by demonstrations on how to test performance scaling on Xeon Phi of a few project codes. For more information click here

The course will present state of the art topics in the development of parallel direct and iterative methods for linear systems with sparse matrices. Some dedicated hand-on sessions will take place. For more information click here

The SESAME–Net Workshop “HPC for SMEs in Bulgaria” took place on 3 April 2017 at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (IICT-BAS) (Sofia, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Bl. 25A, seminar room 218 (2nd floor)). The aim of this workshop was to present the benefits of HPC for Small and Medium Enterprises, including startups. The new „HPC4SME Assessment Tool“, developed within the SESAME NET project was presented, so that SMEs may assess whether their market position can be improved by…

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The 11th International Conference on Large-Scale Scientific Computations (LSSC’17) June 5-9,2017, Sozopol, Bulgaria, is organized by the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IICT-BAS) in cooperation with  Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Traditionally, the purpose of LSSC’17 is to bring together scientists working with large-scale computation of environments, biomedical and industrial problems. During this conference a special session: “HPC and BigData: Algorithms and Applications” is organized by A. Karaivanova (IICT-BAS), E. Atanassov (IICT-BAS),…