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We invite you to a "Using Landscape Geometry and Chaos Theory to Forecast Quantum Advantage" seminar, which will take place on 24 June at IT4Innovations. Online participation will also be available. The talk will be delivered by Van Binh Henri Vu from the Quantum Computing Lab at IT4Innovations.

IT4Innovations and LUMI AI Factory invite you to attend the "Securing GitHub & GitLab Repositories in the Era of Supply Chain Attacks and AI Agents" course, which will take place online on June 30, 2026.

Looking to optimize your scientific computing and get the most out of MetaCentrum? Join our introductory online webinar on June 23, 2026, launching our brand-new series. Whether you're a complete beginner or a seasoned user, in just one hour you'll get a comprehensive overview of core services, interactive platforms like OnDemand and Galaxy, and available AI tools. 

We are looking for experienced users who want to help their colleagues and students utilize MetaCentrum's computing and data resources, and who would like to become our ambassadors at their home institutions—helping colleagues and students get started, raising awareness of e-infrastructure services, and becoming part of an active support network.

IT4Innovations and the National Competence Centre in HPC invite you to the online course “Introduction to HPC”, taking place on 3–5 June 2026.

The CERIT-SC Centre, an integral part of the national e-infrastructure e-INFRA CZ, has launched the second generation of AlphaFind. This fast and reliable tool for discovering similar protein structures combines massive datasets with advanced machine learning and high-performance computing power. The service is fully and freely available to the wider scientific community.

Czech science is strengthening its position on the digital map of Europe. The e-INFRA CZ consortium—comprising CESNET, the CERIT-SC center at Masaryk University, and the IT4Innovations supercomputing center at VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava—has successfully applied for the second wave of the EOSC Federation (European Open Science Cloud).
The establishment of an independent Czech node (EOSC CZ Node) confirms that Czech e-infrastructure is no longer an "isolated island," but rather an integral part of the European research area.

The national service for operating large language models, run by CERIT-SC under e-INFRA CZ, has reached a significant milestone. Since its launch, it has served more than 1,700 users from the Czech academic and research community and processed over 100 billion tokens. The service confirms its role as a key piece of national infrastructure for working with modern language models in an environment that respects data sovereignty requirements.

MaX Centre of Excellence and the Czech National Competence Center in HPC invite you to the course Computational Spectroscopy: Hands-on Many-Body Calculations with the Yambo Code, held online on 5–7 May 2026.

The Czech National Competence Center in HPC invites you to the expert seminar Quantum Computing Seminar: The Role of Symmetry in Quantum Algorithms for Many-body Systems, taking place on 29 April from 13:00 to 14:00, both online and in person at IT4Innovations.

As the volume of scientific publications, data, and projects continues to grow, so does the need to reliably and consistently identify and connect this information across different systems. This need is addressed by the development of persistent identifiers (PIDs), which enable the unambiguous identification of researchers, institutions, and research outputs, while establishing stable links between them. Their importance is also evident in practice within the e-infrastructure environment – since last year’s call, more than 530 users have already linked their ORCID accounts with their e-INFRA accounts. Which identifiers are most commonly used today, and how is their adoption shaping the Czech research landscape? 

An outstanding achievement has been accomplished by Masaryk University student Filip Jozefov. With his master’s thesis, prepared under the supervision of Aleš Křenek from CERIT-SC and in collaboration with IOCB of the Czech Academy of Sciences, he reached the TOP 10 in the Best Master’s Thesis category of this year’s prestigious Werner von Siemens Award. In strong nationwide competition, he demonstrated not only exceptional quality but also a significant innovative contribution of his research.

Institutions can apply for computational resources on the supercomputers operated by the IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center for non-commercial purposes through open access grant competitions. These calls are announced three times a year (February, June, and October) and are intended for employees of research, scientific, and educational organisations.

The MetaCentrum computing grid, a key resource for research and scientific computing in the Czech Republic, has significantly boosted its capabilities with the integration of new clusters owned by CESNET and the University of West Bohemia (ZČU). This upgrade enhances both CPU and GPU power, while introducing a specialized high-memory SMP node to support demanding computational tasks.

Prague, 12 February 2026: Representatives of CERIT-SC, a key component of the national e-infrastructure e-INFRA CZ, took part in the expert conference Containers in Practice 2026. This year’s edition focused on critical topics in modern IT—from digital sovereignty and security to the integration of artificial intelligence into containerized environments.

LUMI AI Factory invites you to attend the " Security Challenges in Autonomous AI Agents " course, which will take place online on February 26, 2026.

The Czech National Competence Center in HPC invites you to the Computational Chemistry in Qiskit: A Practical Overview of Current Approaches, held online on March 12, 2026.

LUMI AI Factory invites you to attend the "Building Robust Industrial AI Solutions: Addressing Real-World Challenges with MATLAB & HPC" course, which will take place online on January 15, 2026.

The future of our national computing and storage services relies on proving that researchers use them. Now, much of the valuable e-INFRA CZ users’ research output is "invisible" to our funders. We are developing a new automated system to harvest users’ publications, avoiding the need to report them twice.  

The user action is simple: just link your ORCID iD and use the proper acknowledgement in your publications. 

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.