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In 2022, IT4Innovations collaborated with the Police of the Czech Republic on a project to develop models to predict criminality and socio-pathogenic phenomena throughout the Czech Republic. The models will help automate and optimise the planning of patrol activities of the Police of the Czech Republic in the field.  

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In addition to its large supercomputers, IT4Innovations also operates smaller complementary systems. We launched the first of our complementary systems in the Autumn of 2022.

These systems represent emerging, non-traditional, and highly specialized hardware architectures that are not yet common in supercomputing data centres.

Markéta Hrabánková, Ondřej Meca, Tomáš Brzobohatý, Lubomír Říha, Milan Jaroš, and Petr Strakoš impressed on the North American continent and brought the SC22 Best Research Poster Award to the Czech Republic.

After two years of hosting the IT4Innovations Users' Conference virtually due to the pandemic situation, we finally met our users in person. The 6th edition of the conference was held from 3rd to 4th November 2022 at IT4Innovations and was attended by 80 guests.

Meet IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC22), November 13–18, 2022, at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, USA.

More than half of the Earth's population already lives in urban areas, and they are growing faster than ever before. Researchers at IT4Innovations, in collaboration with the University of Leeds in the UK, have trained a neural network to recognise how cities are changing over the decades, using remote sensing data from the European Space Agency (ESA). The aim of this collaboration is to create useful models that will be available to urban planners. Monitoring urban sprawl will help them to prevent unwanted urban expansion and minimise negative environmental impacts.

Our supercomputer center participated again this year in Researchers' Night, our most popular public event. The event, when hundreds of science departments open their doors in the evening, took place on Friday, 30 September, and the theme was With All the Senses. We welcomed record 900 visitors at IT4Innovations. 

The European Joint Undertaking EuroHPC has selected sites to host new European quantum computers. LUMI-Q consortium is among the projects chosen, and its quantum computer will be located in Czechia at the IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Centre in Ostrava.

A dozen programmers from around the world got together in early September to join forces in order to develop software called FIJI. The hackathon, a gathering of developers known in the IT community, was initiated by researchers from IT4Innovations, who have been working on a specialized image processing software package for a long time.

A cheap, effective, and recyclable nanomaterial that can not only detect but also eradicate heavy metals from water, especially cadmium and lead. This is the result of a collaboration between scientists from CATRIN at Palacký University, VSB-TUO and IT4Innovations, and the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Barcelona.

In Prague, the International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods (DD27) brought together world leaders in the field that combines numerical mathematics with the world of powerful supercomputers. Thanks to domain decomposition algorithms, these computers can be used to solve very large-scale simulation problems in scientific and engineering practice, for example, prediction of aerodynamic properties of aircraft and cars, strength calculations of large-scale engineering and building structures, as well as detailed models predicting climate evolution or simulating various bodily functions.

The Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union began a few days ago, and with it, the first accompanying events related to this prestigious role. One of them is the traditional visit of ambassadors sitting on the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the Member States to the Council of the EU, which is taking place in the Moravian-Silesian Region from 7th to 9th July.

The HPCSE 2022 conference, organised by IT4Innovations in May, brought together experts from HPC and related scientific disciplines. Andreas Lintermann, who has been working for a long time at the supercomputing centre in Jülich, Germany, and who is coordinating the European Centre of Excellence for Exascale Computing "Research on AI - and Simulation-Based Engineering at Exascale" (CoE RAISE) since 2021, accepted the invitation to present his work activities. We interviewed Andreas on this occasion to present an interview with him in the following lines.

One of the largest HPC conference - ISC 2022 - took place in Germany. IT4Innovations was also among the exhibitors, presenting the Ostrava supercomputing centre and its activities at its own booth.

Nearly 80 participants, 30 lectures, 11 invited speakers from six countries, and 30 presented posters. This is the balance of the four-day HPCSE 2022 conference, which took place from 16th to 20th May at the Hotel Soláň in the Beskydy mountains. The conference organized by IT4Innovations was held for the fifth time, but this time after a three-year break caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

On Monday, 25th April, we welcomed Helena Langšádlová, who has been the Minister of Science, Research, and Innovation since last December. She visited IT4Innovations during her business trip to Ostrava, where she held a series of meetings with representatives of local universities.

This spring, we have endowed ourselves with a brand-new seminar room, which is a representative place for conducting training, seminars, classes, and other events organized by IT4Innovations. The classroom, which can accommodate up to 37 people, including speakers, is equipped with state-of-the-art audio-visual technology that allows, among others, live streaming.

Ostrava, 13th April 2022 – Data room of IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava boasts not only supercomputers but also high-capacity data storage facilities. The first one is the PROJECT storage, which significantly facilitates the work of researchers who calculate their projects on the Ostrava supercomputers. In the second case, it is the data storage facility of the CESNET association, which is one of the largest in the Czech Republic.

In early April, 58 scientists were granted computational resources for their research projects. This was in the framework of the Open Access Grant Competition (OAGC for short) and its 24th edition. A total of 1 497 623 node hours were distributed across the winning projects.