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Vít Vondrák, the current Managing Director of IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, has been reappointed to his post for another term. This will be of the same length as the previous one, i.e. for 3 years. In this interview we discuss what he achieved in his first term as the IT4Innovations Managing Director, and what plans he has for his next term.

In early 2020, the Digital Innovation Hub Ostrava (DIH Ostrava) was established, bringing together the activities of IT4In - novations and MSIC Ostrava, enabling small and medium-sized enterprises to examine and potentially address their digitalisation needs. These, unlike large companies, tend not to have the financial or human resources to commit to verifying and potentially deploying digital technologies. For this reason, the Moravian-Silesian Region also decided to support the foundation of DIH Ostrava, including a pilot financial advantage tool for selected types of services and access to supercomputing capacities.

IT4Innovations cooperates with the ENET centre, which is part of VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, in the Centre for Energy and Environmental Technologies (CEET) project. The project is supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, which financially supports research and innovation.

In December, the installation of our new petascale supercomputer with the working name EURO_IT4I, has started. The supercomputer will be put into operation during the first half of this year. You can watch the progress of the installation in the photo gallery.

Jiří Dědeček together with Edyta Tabor and Štěpán Sklenák from J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of sciences found a unique way to turn methane into methanol, for which they received the Czech Head Invention Award. Using the IT4Innovations supercomputers in their research, they computationally predicted results, which they eventually confirmed experimentally. They received 32,458,000 core hours of IT4Innovations computational resources for their research within six Open Access Grant Competitions.

Find out what happened at IT4Innovations in the 3rd quarter of 2020. You can find the new Newsletter HERE.

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 allocation commission divided 74,498,000 core hours among 73 projects within the 20th Open Access Grant Competition. See the detailed results HERE.

It is no exaggeration to say that the year 2019 will surely rank among those very significant and successful years in our center‘s history. Success was achieved in the field of research, supercomputing infrastructure development, cooperation with industry, and education, all of which are the main pillars of our activity. I am particularly pleased to share our achievements with you on the pages of our 2019 Review.

The 22nd PRACE Call for Proposals for Project Access is open till October 27, 2021. The allocation of awarded resources on Tier-0 systems is made for 1 year at a time with its utilization starting on April 1, 2021.

Applicants can apply for a 12-month plan (Single-year Project) or a 24 or 36-month plan (Multi-year Project).

Read the article "Photoelectron spectra of alkali metal – ammonia microjets: From blue electrolyte to bronze metal" by our user Pavel Jungwirth from IOCB Prague. Pavel Jungwirth's team gained 650.000 core hours for its research. You can find more information about the research here.

Our colleagues from the Advanced Data Analysis and Simulation Lab led by Miroslav Vozňák are involved in implementing a unique project to develop a primary data passing interface to monitor population mobility in the territory of the Czech Republic with respect to the current spread of Covid-19 disease. This data is processed from anonymous operating data collected by T-Mobile CZ using the services of IT4Innovations.

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.

IT4Innovations inform about research and development support service, which is provided as part of the international POP2 Centre of Excellence project within the H2020 program.

On May 18, it will be seven years since our first supercomputer Anselm was fully put into operation. During this time at IT4Innovations, it has completed millions of core hours of calculations on many interesting projects.

Dear users of IT4Innovations computational resources, In the light of the current events regarding the spread of coronavirus COVID-19, please accept our preferential offer to use IT4Innovations computational resources for projects focused on mitigating the spread of coronavirus COVID-19.

In Ostrava, on Wednesday the 2nd of October 2019, the ceremony for the new supercomputer being put into operation at IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VSB - Technical University of Ostrava was held. It has expanded the family of supercomputers installed at the centre. The winning name of the competition was Barbora.