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The CERIT-SC Centre, part of the national e-infrastructure e-INFRA CZ, supported the second annual nationwide healthcare hackathon "Hack jak Brno" by providing computational capacity. These resources were essential for the teams who worked on complex solutions utilizing artificial intelligence during the intensive weekend.

The Czech National Competence Centre in HPC and IT4Innovations invite you to the Workshop on Quantum Computing, scheduled to take place online on December 3, 2025.

With the growing demand for computing power, particularly due to the development of artificial intelligence, the energy consumption of supercomputers is also increasing. For ten years, scientists from IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Centre at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava have been working on optimising the energy efficiency of data centres. Thanks to international cooperation and its own innovations, the Czech supercomputing centre is one of the European leaders in energy efficiency optimisation in computing. Saving energy is not just a matter of costs but also an active contribution to protecting the environment.

When participants of the 9th Users' Conference of IT4Innovations gathered in Ostrava at the end of October, they experienced far more than just a series of presentations. The atrium of our supercomputing centre buzzed with discussions on planned system upgrades, the acceptance of the first Czech quantum computer and possibilities for its use, as well as the impressive scientific results achieved thanks to our computational resources.

This autumn, Brno will become the beating heart of the open source world. At the turn of October and November 2025, the city will host a series of events dedicated to open technologies, digital freedom, and community collaboration.

From AI workshops to policy discussions and community meetups — everyone interested in open source will find something to enjoy.

IT4Innovations invites you to attend the " Evolutionary Optimisation of Neural Network Hardware Accelerators " course, which will take place online on November 3, 2025.

IT4Innovations 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.

IT4Innovations 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.

IT4Innovations invite you to the From Building to City Energy Simulation course, held online from 26 to 28 November 2025.

IT4Innovations 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.