The original AEGIS was an impervious shield and breastplate forged by Hephaestus for the infant Zeus. Zeus later gave AEGIS to his favorite daughter Pallas Athena. Athena lent the shield to Perseus to battle the dreaded Gorgon Medusa who had snakes for hair and was so frightening to behold that those who viewed her turned to stone. Perseus slew Medusa by watching her reflection in the shield's polished surface.
The new shield symbolises AEGIS (Academic and Educational Grid Initiative of Serbia) an umbrella organization that seeks to unify High Performance Computing (HPC) in Serbia integrating it into robust national, regional and pan-European infrastructures. AEGIS organizes dissemination and training activities, helps the Serbian research community to develop and deploy Grid applications, and coordinates related fund raising activities. The members of AEGIS are researchers and academic institutions in Serbia that use, provide and/or develop Grid resources.
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Partnership IPB-IBM (english version) |
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Partnership IPB-IBM (serbian version) The official signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Institute of Physics Belgrade (IPB) and IBM Serbia. |
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Presentation of our Center of Excellence on SNTV Serbian Science Television (SNTV) has recently visited the Center for the Study of Complex Systems and filmed a programme on the activities, resources, and achievements of the Center. |
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Forging of AEGIS Short video of the hand forging of AEGIS - a magical brass shield at a foundry in Smederevo, Serbia.(Video by Romana Vujasinovic) |
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Blue Danube supercomputing initiative launched Deputy Prime Mininster Bozidar Djelic: "A great day for Serbian Science. Serbia has become a member of the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE)." (Video by Romana Vujasinovic) |
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Striving for Excellence Prof. Aleksandar Belic talks about cutting edge research and the role of SCL as an EU center of excellence in the field of computer modeling of complex systems and the application of Grid technologies. (Video by Romana Vujasinovic) |
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Accessing Complexity Prof. Aleksandar Bogojevic focuses on the science of complexity as the joint component tying in all the research done at SCL. (Video by Romana Vujasinovic) |
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Grid site upgrade |
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SCL web-site Current site is the principle web-site and information system documenting SCL activities. The header represents a stylization of the density profile of Saturn's ring system, a beautiful and classical illustration of complexity. Design by Igor Smolic, implementation by Nemanja Martinovic.
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Lux et Scientia
One of two SCL posters developed for month-long LHC exhibition organized by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade 2008. The poster presents SCL's new visual identity, and the laboratory's Lux et Scientia motto. Design and photographs by Igor Smolic. [230cm x 70cm]
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Grid Computing One of two SCL posters developed for month-long LHC exhibition organized by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade 2008. The poster illustrates SCL activities in CERN related Grid e-Infrastructure projects at European, regional and national levels. Design by Igor Smolic. [70cm x 100cm]
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SCL Logo The logo is the principle instrument of SCL's visual identity, and was designed by Dusko Latas.
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Beogradjesistem SCL’s Belgrade-is-a-system project attempts to popularize science on a grand scale by creating a true-to-scale model of the Solar System the size of Belgrade.
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Aegis The Academic and Educational Grid Initiative of Serbia (AEGIS) is the national umbrella organization encompassing all Serbian research institutions using or developing Grid computing. SCL is the coordinating institution within AEGIS. The bronze AEGIS shield was commissioned in 2010 by SCL to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the national initiative. The 30cm shield has been cast in a small number of pieces, one for each AEGIS member. Risto Mihic design and clay mold, Srdjan Jankovic bronze cast.
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Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic:
"A great day for Serbian Science. Serbia has become a member of the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe during Spain's chairmanship of the project. The goal of PRACE is to keep EU competitive in Supercomputing with the US, Japan, China and India. The 7 year long 10 million euro Blue Danube Supercomputing Initiative embodies Serbia's serious intent to take active part in the 21st century's supercomputing revolution. The Institute of Physics in Belgrade will be transformed into a great campus of science."
(Video created by Romana Vujasinovic)