empowering innovations with supercomputers
and A quantum computer
IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava is a leading research, development, and innovation centre active in the fields of High-Performance Computing (HPC), Data Analysis (HPDA), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Quantum Computing (QC) and their application to other scientific fields, industry, and society. IT4Innovations operates the most powerful supercomputing systems in the Czech Republic, provided to Czech and foreign research teams from academia and industry.
Together with the CESNET and CERIT-SC institutions, IT4Innovations constitutes e-INFRA CZ, a strategic research infrastructure of the Czech Republic.
Since 2013, IT4Innovations has been providing state-of-the-art supercomputing technologies and services to both Czech and foreign research teams from academia and the private sector to increase the competitiveness and innovativeness of Czech science and industry.
At present, IT4Innovations runs two supercomputers:
the supercomputer Karolina (15.7 PFlop/s, installed in the summer of 2021), and Barbora (849 TFlop/s, installed in the autumn of 2019). Apart from the supercomputers operated at IT4Innovations, Czech research communities also have access to the LUMI supercomputer thanks to IT4Innovations' membership in the LUMI consortium.
In 2025, the first Czech quantum computer, named VLQ, operated by the LUMI-Q consortium, was installed at IT4Innovations.
IT4Innovations is also actively involved in the European network of AI Factories – it is a member of the LUMI AI Factory and coordinates the Czech AI Factory. The primary goal of AI Factories is to support the development of AI startups and the deployment of artificial intelligence in industry, public administration, and society at large. AI Factories aim to achieve this goal by providing expertise in the field of artificial intelligence, supporting the development of new AI models, and providing software tools for the easy use of supercomputers and the processing of large datasets.
IT4Innovations is dedicated to research excellence in High Performance Computing, Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing. IT4Innovations' core research areas are big data processing and analysis, machine learning, development of parallel scalable algorithms and algorithms for quantum computers and simulators, solving challenging engineering problems, advanced visualisation, virtual reality, modelling for nanotechnology, and material design.
IT4Innovations research activities are executed across 5 laboratories:
- Advanced Data Analysis and Simulations Lab,
- Infrastructure Research Lab,
- Parallel Algorithms Research Lab,
- Modelling for Nanotechnologies Lab,
- Quantum Computing Lab.
IT4Innovations also strongly focuses on cooperation with industrial enterprises. Experts from the European Digital Innovation Hub Ostrava (EDIH Ostrava) and the National Competence Center in HPC are available to assist, especially SMEs and startups, by providing a wide range of services in supercomputing and in the adoption and application of digital technologies.
IT4Innovations contributes significantly to all activities of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and is a member of key European infrastructures, initiatives and associations.
IT4Innovations has long organised and offered a wide array of specialised training events focused on HPC, HPDA, AI, and QC, and on acquiring skills necessary for the effective use of supercomputing infrastructure. It also focuses on developing digital skills. In these areas, IT4Innovations is actively involved in educating students, particularly through study programmes at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava. IT4Innovations is also a member of the EUMaster4HPC consortium, which implements the eponymous pan-European MSc study programme focused on high-performance computing.
History
Launch of the Anselm supercomputer
Mission of IT4Innovations
Our mission is to carry out excellent research in the field of high-performance and quantum computing, advanced data analysis, and artificial intelligence, and to operate the leading national supercomputing and quantum infrastructure, mediating its effective use in order to increase the competitiveness and innovation of Czech science and industry.
Vision of IT4Innovations
Our vision is to become a leading supercomputing center that provides professional services and conducts excellent research in high-performance and quantum computing, the processing of advanced data sets, and artificial intelligence, for the benefit of science, industry, and society as a whole.
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