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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.

In May 2024, the 6th International HPCSE Conference, organised by IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center since 2013, took place. This edition attracted 85 participants worldwide, including experts from the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Turkey, Spain, Italy, and Austria.

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.

Jakub Homola from the IT4Innovations Infrastructure Research Lab attended the International HPC Summer School on Challenges in Computational Sciences (IHPCSS) in Kobe, Japan, this July.

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.

Newsletter 5/2024

Review 2023 summarises the key moments in IT4Innovations. The publication is available here.

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.

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.

Employees of research organisations based in the Czech Republic can submit applications for computing time on the Karolina, Barbora, LUMI supercomputers and NVIDIA DGX-2 system until 30 July 2024. We will announce the competition's results in September.

Open Access Grant Competition of IT4Innovations. →

IT4Innovations Newsletter 4/2024

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 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.

The world's oldest and Europe's most important HPC conference –⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ISC High Performance –⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ was held in Germany. Its history dates back more than 30 years. IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center had its first booth at this conference in Leipzig in 2014.

Europe's largest supercomputing conference – ISC 2024 – will take place in Hamburg, Germany.
The theme of this year's event, which is expected to attract around 3,000 visitors from 51 countries, is 'Reinventing HPC'. The conference will be held from 12 to 16 May.

The Karolina supercomputer underwent a software upgrade. This upgrade was essential to ensure compatibility with new versions of tools and applications, essentially resulting in a re-installation of the Karolina supercomputer.

We are offering for sale the remaining part of a decommissioned SALOMON supercomputer!

EUMaster4HPC Summer School welcomes students from universities around the world to get cutting-edge knowledge in HPC and HPC-related technologies for one week, from 18 to 24 August 2024 at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.

IT4Innovations Newsletter 3/2024

IT4Innovations supercomputers are primarily utilised by researchers and academics from Czech research institutions, who receive computing time through open access grant competitions. Selected projects across various disciplines such as engineering, informatics, earth sciences, life and material sciences are supported by IT4Innovations. You can explore some of these projects here.