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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 will support the broader deployment of AI tools in society and industry. These include the LUMI AI Factory, which builds on the successful LUMI consortium. This operates Europe's most powerful supercomputer until recently, including the Czech Republic through the national supercomputing centre IT4Innovations. IT4Innovations will participate 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.

The NVIDIA, Open ACC organization, EuroCC Austria, EuroCC Czechia, EuroCC Germany, EuroCC Montenegro, EuroCC Poland, EuroCC Sweden, and EuroCC Slovenia invite you to AI for Science Bootcamp, held online on May 27 and 28, 2025.

The Czech National Competence Center in HPC and EXA4MIND is inviting you to a Python for HPC course, which will be held online on April 29–30, 2025.

The Plasma-PEPSC CoE in collaboration with IPP CAS, LECAD, ENCCS and Slovenian and Czech NCCs invite you to PIC (BIT1) modelling of the fusion plasma edge (EuroCC), held online and on-site at Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences on April 7 and 9, 2025.

The Plasma-PEPSC CoE in collaboration with IPP CAS, LECAD, ENCCS and Slovenian and Czech NCCs invite you to PIC (BIT1) modelling of the fusion plasma edge (EuroCC), held online and on-site at Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences on April 7 and 9, 2025.

The Czech National Competence Center in HPC is inviting you to an Introduction to HPC course, which will be held online on June 24–26, 2025.

The two-day bootcamp, prepared by the National Competence Centres in HPC together with NVIDIA, will take place online from 8 to 9 April. 

The Czech National Competence Center in HPC invites you to the Quantum Computing Seminar: Probabilistic Quantum Error Correction Codes Within Application to NISQ Devices held online and on-site in IT4innovations on April 10, 2025.

The CoE HiDALGO and NCC Czechia invite you to the Containerisation, CI/CD, and Benchmarking Solutions for HPC, held online on March 24 and 26, 2025.

The Czech National Competence Center in HPC invites you to the Fundamental Quantum Computing Algorithms and Their Implementation in Qiskit, held online on March 18 and 19, 2025.