NEWS

Find the latest news, not only from our Supercomputing Center in Ostrava,
in the IT4Innovations Newsletter 4/2023.

Pavel Hobza and his team first contributed to the rewriting of textbooks twenty years ago. This was when they discovered and described the so-called improper hydrogen bond. Together with colleagues from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Institute of Physical Chemistry of Jaroslav Heyrovský of the Czech Academy of Sciences and IT4Innovations, he has made yet another discovery. This time it has the potential to simplify the previously adopted definition of the hydrogen bond and to force chemistry students and researchers to rethink their ideas about the substances they study.

Scientists from the Czech Advanced Technology and Research Institute (CATRIN) of Palacký University Olomouc and the CEET and IT4Innovations research centres of the VSB – Technical University of Ostrava have developed a unique technology that will enable to use the waste from the production of biodiesel—glycerol—and transform it into useful products, thus increasing the efficiency of existing biofuels. Moreover, the proposed biomaterial based on graphene will replace the acids that have been used to convert glycerol. However, unlike them, it is non-toxic and fully recyclable. The discovery, which was made in collaboration between Czech and Indian institutes, was recently published in the journal Nature Communications.

In May this year, we launched the project  “Experimental and theoretical studies of near-infrared-emitting and chiral carbon dot luminophores” supported by the Global Experts programme of the Moravian-Silesian Region. We bring you an interview with Andrey Rogach, an excellent scientist who will bring the know-how of his research group to Ostrava's IT4Innovations.

Europe's largest supercomputing conference – ISC 2023, will take place in Hamburg, Germany. Among the exhibitors, you will find IT4Innovations, which will present the Czech National Supercomputing Center and its activities at booth B209.

The European Digital Innovation Hub Ostrava kicked off its activities at the beginning of this year. Since then, it has provided all interested clients with a complete portfolio of services. The services focus primarily on supporting smaller and medium-sized companies and startups as well as public organisations in deploying and using digital technologies, including providing knowledge and infrastructure, creating tailor-made solutions, and implementing training courses.

A unique Global Experts programme, funded by the Moravian-Silesian Region, is being launched to attract the world's top scientists to local universities. Participating universities include VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, specifically IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, which is to host Professor Andrey Rogach.

European research and supercomputing centres and leading computer hardware and simulation software manufacturers are joining forces at the MaX (MAterials design at the eXascale) European Centre of Excellence. The MaX project develops simulation software for materials science. It will also focus on the efficient use of exascale supercomputers in its third phase, in which scientists from IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center are also involved. This will open up new possibilities for designing and testing materials for applications in critical areas such as clean energy, new IT technologies, and manufacturing.

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.