IT4Innovations is a research and development centre with strong international links, it is involved in all activities of EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and in a number of prestigious international organisations (PRACE, ETP4HPC, EUDAT, BDVA, EOSC).
IT4Innovations is currently a National Centre of Competence for HPC, a member of the MaX and Space Centres of Excellence and a partner in more than 10 other international projects of Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe or Digital Europe, coordinating the EXA4MIND project. It also collaborates on the European Space Agency (ESA) project called AIOPEN (Platform Extensions with AI Capabilities).
The implementation of national projects financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of the Interior, the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic or the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic is also important. Some of the projects are carried out in the form of contract research with commercial entities.
TOP 5 IT4INnovations PROJEcTs
2023–2026
Project ID: LM2023054
Provider: Large Infrastructures for Research, Experimental Development and Innovation project
e-INFRA CZ is a unique e-infrastructure for research, development, and innovationin the Czech Republic, which represents a fully transparent environment providing complex capacities and resources for scientific data transfer, storage, and processing to all entities focused on research, development, and innovation across sectors.
It creates a communication, information, storage, and computing platform for research, development, and innovation both at the national and international levels. It also provides an extensive and comprehensive portfolio of ICT services for conducting modern research, development and innovation.
The main components of e-INFRA CZ include:
→ high-performance national communication infrastructure,
→ national grid and cloud infrastructure,
→ the most powerful and state-of-the-art supercomputing systems in the Czech Republic,
→ high-capacity data storage facilities.
Other tools and services, such as access control to ICT resources, tools to support remote cooperation, and tools to ensure secure communication and data protection, are also an essential part and an added value of this infrastructure, contributing to its efficient and diverse use.
EXA4MIND
EXtreme Analytics for MINing Data
2023–2025
Project ID: 101092944
EXA4MIND project will build an Extreme Data platform which brings together data storage systems and powerful computing infrastructures by implementing novel automated data management and effective data staging. The project is driven by four application cases from molecular dynamics, advanced driver assistance systems, smart agri-viticulture and health and social Big Data. The EXA4MIND proposes innovative solutions to complex everyday data-processing problems and addresses critical challenges like data analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at scale; effectively democratising access to and enabling connectivity across EU supercomputing centres.
LUMI AI Factory – Service Center
2025–2028
Project ID: 101234208
As AI technologies and methodologies continue to advance swiftly, Europe has been actively developing and strengthening the ecosystem of frameworks, environments, tools and services required to boost innovation. This comprehensive approach aims to harmonise AI strategies across the continent, addressing the technology’s challenges and opportunities while assessing its impact on public and private sectors and society at large. The LUMI AI Factory Service Center project is a part of the broader LUMI AI Factory ecosystem leveraging the current LUMI supercomputer but gearing up for the upcoming LUMI-AI system, and the related AI-optimised quantum experimental platform LUMI-IQ.
Center for Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing in System Brain Research
2024 – 2030
Project ID: 101136607
CLARA, the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing in System Brain Research, represents the interdisciplinary center of excellence focused on the next generation of artificial intelligence/machine learning applications and quantum-centric supercomputing tools to push the frontier of neurodegeneration research, particularly Alzheimer's disease. The CoE seeks deep field knowledge and processing of large-scale biological and clinical data that will enrich the collective understanding of these emerging technologies and solve real-world challenges, thus accelerating innovations and the future of computing for the benefit of society.
High-level specialized application support service in High-Performance Computing (HPC)
2024–2028
Project ID: 101139786
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is deploying a European-wide High-performance Computing infrastructure comprising a number of supercomputers from small petascale to exascale systems. Nowadays, the Hosting Entities offer support services to users, mainly providing help desk support for day-to-day operational issues and problems. The EPICURE project aims to operate a high-performance computing application support service for European scientists and researchers. Application Support Teams will provide services aimed at application porting, optimisation and execution of key applications and organisation of specialised training events and workshops in the context of high-profile international HPC events. Finally, developing a single point of contact will allow European HPC users to retrieve information on the systems, their architectures, access mechanisms, and available support services.
MAterials design at the eXascale
2023–2026
Project ID: 101093374
Materials simulations have become one of the most intensive and fast-growing domains for high-performance computing worldwide, with a recognized European leadership in developing and innovating the ecosystem of quantum simulation codes. MAX project will target these lighthouse codes to address the challenges and leverage the opportunities arising from future exascale and post-exascale architectures, and to offer powerful paths to discovery and innovation serving both scientific and industrial applications.
OTHER IT4INNOVATIONS PROJECTS
2017–2022
Project ID: CZ.02. 1. 01/0. 0/0.0/15_003/0000466
Provider: Operational Programme Research, Development, and Education
The project yielded significant measures for developing informatics, robotics, and cybernetics research at the Czech Technical University in Prague. The project established a new AI and Reasoning research group within a given part of the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics (CIIRC), which focused on solving advanced interdisciplinary problems of high technical and social priority. The project was also supported by national partners (VSB-TUO and the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen). The motivation for their participation stems from the emphasis not only on the concentration and integration of resources and sharing of knowledge and infrastructure but also on establishing a “unified space for opportunities” for young talents in the Czech Republic.
2017–2021
EXperiments and high PERformance computing for Turbine mechanical Integrity and Structural dynamics in Europe
Project ID: (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016 call)
The objective of this project is to educate researchers able to participate in interdisciplinary cooperation in the areas of supercomputing and mechanics. The colaboration between industrial partners and research organizations will speed up development of the key technologies in turbomachinery and their rapid commissioning in practice. The project is supported by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks grant within Horizon 2020.
2017–2021
Technology transfer via multinational application experiments
Project ID: 761349 (H2020-ICT-2016-2 call)
The objective of this project was to implement the European "Smart Anything Everywhere" initiative in the field of Customized Low Energy Computing for cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things. The essential purpose of this initiative is to accelerate innovations in European industry. The initiative connects technical and application know-how, which helps small and medium-sized enterprises adopt advanced digital technologies more effectively and efficiently.
2017–2021
Cloudification of Production Engineering for Predictive Digital Manufacturing
Project ID: 768892 (H2020-FOF-2017 call)
The project's mission was to contribute to efficient use of high performance computing by European small and medium-sized production companies and thus increase their competitiveness. This project aims at the optimization of production processes and productivity of companies using HPC-based modelling and simulation, as well as cloud services.