NEWS

Find the latest news, not only from our Supercomputing Center in Ostrava,
in the IT4Innovations Newsletter 3/2023.

Scientists from Charles University, IT4Innovations at the VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, and the Czech Academy of Sciences collaborate on research into the interaction of actinides with hydrogen. The results of their joint study on these elements have been published in the prestigious Reports on Progress in Physics journal.

The National Competence Centre for HPC celebrates two years of existence in the Czech Republic. During this time, it has helped many companies and public institutions by providing access to supercomputers, technology consulting, and free educational activities. It intends to build on its earlier achievements in the next three-year period of its operation.

Are you an undergraduate or graduate student interested in computer science and supercomputing?
Then we have an exciting offer for you – the pan-European Master programme European Master for High Performance Computing (EUMaster4HPC).

One of the most important conferences, the EuroHPC Summit, bringing together the HPC community, has been held annually since 2016. This year, for the first time, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) was the main organizer. More than 500 experts attended the conference. Policymakers, representatives of supercomputing centres, and industrial enterprises took the stage. Colleagues from IT4Innovations also participated in the international HPC event.

Find the latest news, not only from our Supercomputing Center in Ostrava,
in the IT4Innovations Newsletter 2/2023.

IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center will be from Monday 20 March to Thursday 23 March at the EuroHPC Summit which will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden, and attended by more than 500 HPC, QC and AI professionals. The theme of this year's Summit is “European Supercomputing Excellence in the Exascale Era”.

Institutions can apply for computational resources within Open Access Grant Competitions. The grant competition is announced 3 times a year (February, June, October) for employees of research, scientific and educational organizations.

The world's third most powerful supercomputer and Europe's number one is fully operational. The second pilot phase of the GPU-based LUMI supercomputer has been completed, and LUMI is accepted as of February 2023, and officially ready to serve European scientists, including Czech scientists. LUMI contains a total of 10 240 graphics processors.

The world's third most powerful and Europe's number one supercomputer is fully operational and accepted as of February 2023. The second pilot phase of the LUMI supercomputer with the GPU partition has been completed. LUMI is now officially ready to fully serve the European as well as the Czech scientific community.

The consortium of EXA4MIND (Extreme Analytics for Mining Data spaces) is pleased to announce the launch of an ambitious project selected and funded by the European Commission as part of the Horizon Europe Programme. Involving top talent from renowned universities and research centres, small and medium-sized enterprises and the industrial sector, 9 partners from 6 countries (the Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, Spain and France) will join forces to make EXA4MIND a reality and create a unique Extreme Data platform by 2026.

Development is moving forward inexorably, and supercomputers that ruled the TOP 500 ten years ago are now forgotten; many of them are even literally on the scrap heap. New supercomputers are much more powerful and can contain over a hundred cores within a single compute node. When computing certain types of massively parallel tasks, running them can be complicated, leading to the potential of new supercomputers not being fully exploited. The solution is HyperQueue, a tool developed by scientists at IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center for efficient organisation of computations to solve scientific problems.

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.  

Are you a bachelor‘s student or graduate, and are you interested in high performance computing?
Do not miss the opportunity to enroll in the pan-European Master programme European Master for High Performance Computing – EUMaster4HPC.

Through online and on-site courses, leading European specialists in HPC are training the next generation
of supercomputing experts.

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.

In September, the pan-European OpenWebSearch.EU project was launched, bringing together 14 renowned European research and supercomputing centres to create an open European web search infrastructure. The Czech Republic is represented in the project by IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, which is part of VSB – Technical University of Ostrava.