Europe takes a quantum leap: LUMI-Q consortium signs contract to establish quantum computer in the Czech Republic

Luxembourg, 26 September 2024 – Europe has taken another step towards enhancing the European quantum computing infrastructure by signing a contract for the acquisition of the LUMI-Q consortium's quantum computer. The quantum computer will be housed in Ostrava, Czech Republic, at the IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, part of the VSB – Technical University of Ostrava. The contract was signed between the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and IQM Quantum Computers, the company selected to supply the unique technology.

Czech researchers help find new antiviral agents

Over the last ten years, we have seen several pandemics. The Zika, Ebola, flu, and COVID-19 pandemics have significantly impacted global health, the economy, and society. These pandemics have created a need for collaboration, prevention, and rapid response to new infectious disease threats. The results of research involving researchers from IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava should help. The research aims to create a range of small molecule-based antiviral agents that can be widely used and rapidly developed to treat infectious diseases.

Finite element method-based optimisation

Researchers at IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center have developed a new method for optimising the performance of finite element method (FEM) computations. Having been published in the Computer Physics Communications journal, their innovative adaptive solution, which adapts computations based on parameters specified at runtime, achieves up to eight times faster computations.

Companies will receive EUR 8 million to solve challenges with supercomputers

Ostrava, 5 August – The European FFplus initiative is looking for innovative companies and start-ups. It will distribute EUR 8 million to selected companies that decide to use a supercomputer to address their needs. The initiative is aimed at businesses with no previous experience in supercomputing or those active in the artificial intelligence (AI) field. The companies will receive not only financial support but also access to supercomputing infrastructure and expert advice from HPC experts.

New web server aids research into neurodegenerative diseases

Ostrava, 16 July 2024 – Protein aggregation is a complex biological process linked to various devastating human diseases, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Accurate prediction of protein aggregation propensity is crucial for developing effective treatments and prevention strategies. To address this challenge, researchers from IT4Innovations at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, in collaboration with the International Clinical Research Centre and Masaryk University (MU), have launched AggreProt, a novel web server designed to predict protein aggregation.

Quantum simulator on the Karolina supercomputer

IT4Innovations introduces a novelty in quantum computing on the Karolina and Barbora supercomputers: the CUDA Quantum simulator. This tool simplifies the development of hybrid applications and significantly increases quantum computing productivity and scalability. It allows 30 qubits to be simulated on a single GPU of the Karolina supercomputer and is available to all IT4Innovations users running an active project.

Another Czech supercomputer ends in Silicon Heaven

Ostrava, 24 June 2024 – The Czech supercomputer Salomon is leaving the data room of IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, part of VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, for good. At its launch, the supercomputer was ranked 40th on the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. During its operation, it performed more than 8.7 million computational tasks across 1,085 research projects in areas such as materials science, life sciences and engineering. These jobs consumed 1,024 million core hours of computing time.

HPCSE 2024: Meeting of Top Experts in High-Performance Computing in the Beskydy Mountains

The HPCSE 2024 (High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering) conference, which hosted 85 participants, was held in the beautiful surroundings of the Beskydy Mountains from 20 to 23 May. IT4Innovations organised this event to bring together international experts from various fields, such as HPC, applied mathematics, numerical analysis, data analysis, machine learning, quantum computing, and advanced visualisation. The conference provided a platform for sharing experience and ideas and initiating new research collaborations.

IT4Innovations and the EVEREST project partners released an open-source System Development Kit

IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center has been involved in the EVEREST project, funded by the Horizon 2020 program, for the past three and a half years. The project, which brought together ten partners from industry, industrial research laboratories, and academia across six European countries – announces the first public release of its open-source System Development Kit (EVEREST SDK). The EVEREST SDK integrates tools to simplify the deployment of applications on heterogeneous high-performance cloud infrastructure, especially for environments offering FPGA acceleration.