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26 September 2025, 17:00–22:00

Visit IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center and spend the night with supercomputers, including the first quantum computer. Learn what they look like and what they are used for. 

The Czech National Competence Centre in HPC is inviting you to a Basics of Quantum Machine Learning course, which will be held online on 21 October 2025.

Join the free XAI Summer School 2025 at Masaryk University in Brno! From September 1–5. This third edition of the event will provide an in-depth, practical introduction to Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), covering key topics such as digital pathology, data management, and model visualization. Registration is open until August 22, and participation is free of charge.

Together with partners we are inviting you to a Graph Theoretical Applications of Photonic Quantum Computing course, which will be held online and on-site at IT4Innovations on September 2–3, 2025.

The LUMI AI Factory invites you to the course “Introduction to Deep Learning with PyTorch,” which will be held online on September 16 and 17, 2025.

The 9th IT4Innovations Users' Conference will take place on 30 and 31 October 2025. All our users are invited to attend, as well as research and project partners from various organizations, research institutions, and industry.

The SPACE CoE and the Czech National Competence Center in HPC is inviting you to a workshop gPLUTO, which will be held online on September 22–23, 2025.

A recent user survey conducted by e-INFRA CZ confirms the essential role its computing services play in advancing research across the Czech Republic. Feedback was provided by 297 respondents from 50 institutions.  The feedback highlights both the popularity and the importance of services such as MetaCentrum GRID, OpenStack Cloud, Kubernetes, Sensitive Cloud, and HPC resources provided by IT4Innovations. 

The President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, visited IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at the end of May. The main topic of the visit was cutting-edge research infrastructure in the fields of high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and quantum technologies, and its importance for the Czech Republic’s global competitiveness. The President also had the opportunity to see the Czech Republic’s only quantum computer, named VLQ.

On May 21–22, 2025, Brno hosted the Research Data Day & EOSC National Tripartite Event, gathering over 200 researchers, data specialists, and infrastructure professionals from 40 European institutions. The conference investigated the evolving interplay between scientific research and data, with particular attention to the technical and organizational challenges of preparing data for artificial intelligence applications and the further development of research infrastructures in Europe.

How artificial intelligence is reshaping research was the focus of the Google AI Leaders Connect event held on May 20 at Prague’s Martinic Palace. Attendees gained up-to-date insights into how AI shapes Czech science, the economy, and innovation. Among the highlights was a forward-looking talk by Matej Antol from CERIT-SC (Masaryk University).

Artificial Intelligence is becoming a vital tool in modern research and scientific innovation. At CERIT-SC, we now offer AI services tailored specifically for the academic community—powerful, user-friendly, and fully under your control. Our new Open WebUI platform provides secure, on-premise access to advanced language models for chatting, coding, document processing, and image generation. The interface supports multiple languages, including Czech. For developers and research teams, the same models are accessible via a documented REST API.

CERIT-SC team, part of the Institute of Computer Science at Masaryk University, will be participating in the Annual High Performance Container Workshop at ISC High Performance 2025 conference, taking place in Hamburg (June, 10-13) — the premier European event for high performance computing, AI, and data analytics. As a key operator of Kubernetes infrastructure within e-INFRA CZ, CERIT-SC has been invited to present two talks based on several years of hands-on experience in containerized HPC environments.

CESNET is proud to announce a significant expansion of the national computational and storage infrastructure, strengthening support for the ELIXIR life science community in the Czech Republic. Newly procured high-performance computing (HPC) clusters and large-scale data storage systems have been deployed across key research sites and are now almost all fully integrated into MetaCentrum, the national grid infrastructure operated by CESNET.

This year, the first Czech quantum computer will be installed in IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center in Ostrava. It has been named VLQ, and the first components of this unique machine have already been delivered. One of the most important is the cryostat – a device in which the chip is subsequently placed and must be able to cool the chip to a temperature of 10 millikelvins (-273.14 degrees Celsius ), i.e. similar to a temperature in space.

AI Factories in Europe support the broader deployment of AI tools in society and industry. These include the LUMI AI Factory, which builds on the successful LUMI consortium. Until recently, this operated Europe's most powerful supercomputer, including the Czech Republic, through the National Supercomputing Centre IT4Innovations. IT4Innovations participates in all activities of the LUMI AI Factory.

Romana Ďuráčiová, a student at FIT BUT, received two prestigious awards for the development and presentation of the Foldify graphical interface at the Excel@FIT 2025 student conference. Kristián Kováč presented there the Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) project, focused on the secure processing and analysis of sensitive genomic data in an international collaboration environment. Both projects are being developed at the CERIT-SC Center under the leadership of Lukáš Hejtmánek.

The National Competence Centres for HPC in Austria, Czech Republic, and Slovakia invite you to a webinar exploring how high-performance computing (HPC) supports digital forensics in large-scale, data-rich environments. The webinar is hosted by the National Competence Centre for HPC in Slovakia.

The Czech National Competence Centre in HPC invites you to the Quantum Computing Seminar: Limitations of Tensor Network Approaches for Optimisation and Sampling, held online and on-site at IT4Innovations on June 19, 2025.

The NVIDIA, Open ACC organization, EuroCC Austria, EuroCC Czechia, EuroCC Germany, EuroCC Montenegro, EuroCC Poland, EuroCC Sweden, and EuroCC Slovenia invite you to Multi-GPU Programming Bootcamp, held online on Jun 17 and 18, 2025.