What is an NCC?

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The episode discusses the role of the National Competence Centre in the European HPC and AI ecosystem with guest Bastian Koller.

This episode’s guest is Bastian Koller who is the Managing Director at the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) as well as the coordinator of the EuroCC 2 project, among others. The conversation explores the role of the EuroCC national competence centre in the increasingly diverse European HPC and AI ecosystem answering questions like: what is a national competence centre (NCC)? How does it differ from a Centre of excellence (CoE), AI Factory, or European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH)? What is the role of the NCC going forward? Interview: Sally Kiebdaj (SIDE, CEEC, HLRS) Editing: Sally Kiebdaj (SIDE, CEEC, HLRS) and Apostolos Vasileiadis (RISE, ENCCS) -- The Supercomputing in Europe podcast is made possible with funding from the European Commission and specifically from https://eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/, the joint initiative between the EU, European countries and private partners to develop a World Class Supercomputing Ecosystem in Europe. The podcast is sustained by the EuroCC project and the Centres of Excellence network that provide supercomputing training and support for industry, academia and public administration for free. You can find more information on…

People in this episode

Host: Sally Kiebdaj

Guest: Bastian Koller

Topics covered

• National Competence Centre
• High-Performance Computing
• AI Ecosystem
• EuroCC Project
• European Digital Innovation Hub

Keywords

• NCC
• HPC
• AI
• EuroCC
• Centre of Excellence
• European Digital Innovation Hub
• supercomputing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, EuroCC 2, SIDE, CEEC, HLRS, RISE, ENCCS, European Commission, EuroHPC, Centres of Excellence

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