TIRANA, June 27/ATA/ Albania has officially joined the EuroHPC (European High Performance Computing), a strategic step towards building the national capacities in supercomputer and artificial intelligence.
Head of the National Agency of Information Society Linda Karçanaj said that this is an achievement that approaches Albania closer to the standards and the European digital infrastructure.
“With the support of WBIF 9 (Western Balkans Investments Framework), we are in the process of drafting a feasibility study for the establishment of a National Supercomputer Center (HPC), a project that has already begun to materialize and will be completed by 2025,” said Karçanaj.
According to Karçanaj, “EuroHPC membership directly helps projects based on artificial intelligence.”
“Thanks to access to supercomputers, Diella, the assistant, can be trained with more advanced models in the Albanian language, becoming even faster and more accurate in helping citizens. This means more real-time responses and more documents generated automatically with voice commands. At the same time, the use of supercomputers will help us accelerate the analysis and translation of laws for harmonization with the EU”, she continued.
Karçanaj informed the attendees that, with the support of WBIF, Albania has started the development of a national feasibility study for the establishment of an HPC Center, which will serve a wide range of users such as public institutions, academia, small and medium-sized enterprises, and start-ups.
“Within the framework of this membership, Albania benefits from direct access to the joint capacities of EuroHPC, as well as the opportunity to participate in high-impact research projects”, Karçanaj affirmed.
“Supercomputers are the basic infrastructure for the next generation of innovation. Admission to EuroHPC is not just a technical success, it is a commitment to the digital future of Albania in the heart of Europe”, said the head of the agency. /e.i/j.p/p.s./
