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The Czech National Competence Centre in HPC invites you to the Quantum Computing Seminar: Grover’s Algorithm and the Schrödinger Equation, held online and on-site at IT4Innovations on 13 November 2025.

The results of the latest call for European AI Factories have been announced in Luxembourg, and the Czech Republic is among the successful applicants.  The national consortium of six partners, led by VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, will establish the Czech AI Factory (CZAI). The initiative will include the acquisition of a powerful new AI supercomputer and the launch of a comprehensive portfolio of AI services provided by the consortium’s experts. Both will serve small and medium-sized enterprises, industry, and institutions from the public and research sectors.

LUMI AI Factory invites you to attend the "Python for HPC 2" course, which will take place online on November 19, 2025.

The traditional LinuxDays 2025 conference took place in Prague on the weekend of October 4–5, attracting experts and enthusiasts in open-source software, Linux, and related technologies. e-INFRA CZ was once again among the exhibitors, with our specialists answering visitors’ questions about high-performance computing (HPC), data storage and management, network security, and artificial intelligence tools, including large language models (LLMs) operated within the national e-INFRA CZ infrastructure.

A new quantum computer named VLQ was officially inaugurated at IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Centre in the Czech Republic, in the presence of prominent Czech and European representatives. It is the second quantum computer launched in Europe under EuroHPC JU. This important milestone marks another step towards building a cutting-edge European quantum computing infrastructure and supporting research and innovation across the continent. The acquisition and operation of VLQ is jointly managed by the pan-European LUMI-Q consortium, which brings together thirteen partners from eight countries.

On October 2, 2025, Prague hosted the annual High-Performance Computing Seminar MetaCentrum 2025, attended by 90 Czech researchers and infrastructure experts on site, with another 60 participants joining online. As part of the e-INFRA CZ national research infrastructure, MetaCentrum provides the backbone of distributed computing for academia, enabling thousands of scientists to tackle projects that would otherwise be impossible.

The CoE HiDALGO, NCC Czechia and NCC Germany invite you to the From Building to City Energy Simulation course, held online from 26 to 28 November 2025.

The Czech National Competence Centre in HPC invites you to the Quantum Computing Seminar: Quantum Gate Neural Networks - A Walkthrough from Quantum-Inspired to Quantum Domain, which will be held online and on-site at IT4Innovations on 25 September 2025.

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. With 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.