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IIT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava introduced its installation of the NVIDIA DGX-2™ computing system today. The system is designed to tackle the most challenging artificial intelligence tasks, delivering over 2 petaFLOPs of performance for AI researchers. The ceremony was attended by the Governor of the Moravian-Silesian Region, Ivo Vondrák, Mayor of the City of Ostrava, Tomáš Macura, and the Rector of VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Václav Snášel.

15 Ph.D. students from all over the world are embarking on 15 parallel and complementary research projects with the ambitious goal of defining a virtual testing system for turbomachinery, simulating the entire machine and not single components as is usually done. This is the objective of the EU project EXPERTISE – models, EXperiments and high PERformance computing for Turbine mechanical Integrity and Structural dynamics in Europe, coordinated in the Czech Republic by professor Tomáš Kozubek from IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, involving a research consortium of 11 beneficiaries and 9 partner organizations from 8 countries.

IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center has run the supercomputer Anselm since 2013, and almost all of its computing capacity is available to Czech and foreign scientists through open grant competitions. During its five years of operation, Anselm has served 441 users, helping them to solve 414 research projects. It has been involved in solving problems in many areas of research and development, such as new drug designs, understanding of high intensity laser acceleration, hydrological modelling and flood prediction, enzymatic reactions analysis, and many others.

TETRAMAX is a new European H2020 project that aims to promote innovation by supporting various types of technology transfer experiments between academia and SMEs. Today we stand at the verge of a new wave of innovation, characterised by the digitisation of all sectors of industry. By investing in innovation actions such as TETRAMAX, which focuses on customized, low-energy computing technology, Europe has the potential to strengthen its competitive position.

Cloudification of Production Engineering for Predictive Digital Manufacturing

From 1st August the new director of the IT4Innovations institute will be doc. Mgr. Vít Vondrák, Ph.D., who is currently the scientific director of IT4Innovations.

The top position in the TOP500 list remains occupied by China with its two supercomputers - Sunway TaihuLight and Tianhe-2 with their Linpack performance of 93 and almost 34 petaflops, respectively. Third position is occupied by the Swiss Piz Daint supercomputer, which has climbed up from 8th position as a result of a significant upgrade. Having its current Linpack performance of 19.6 petaflops, the most powerful European supercomputer is operated at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). In the top 10, there are also supercomputers from the United States of America and Japan. Salomon, the most powerful Czech supercomputer operated by the IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center in Ostrava, maintains its position in the top 100, currently ranking 78th.

Within a year since Salomon was put into operations, 435 projects for 448 users have been successfully solved using this supercomputer. As part of the process, more than 135 million core hours, which is more than 3,800 years of continuous operation of a laptop with four very powerful cores, have been spent. Its 2 PETAFLOPS of theoretical peak performance are utilized by scientists such as chemists, astrophysicists, or mathematicians as well as mechanical engineers.

SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), a global leader in high performance solutions for compute, data analytics and data management, and IT4Innovations national supercomputing center in the Czech Republic, announced the deployment of the Salomon s upercompute r, ranked 40th among the most powerful supercomputers on the prestigious TOP500 list . The Salomon supercomputer, an SGI system, which is operated by IT4Innovations national supercomputing center at VSB Technical Uni versity of Ostrava (VSB TUO)TUO), is hosting an unveiling ceremony that will take place today.

At the end of 2014 BULL has finalized genomic pipeline installation known as OMICS master at czech National Supercomputer Center in Ostrava (IT4I).

IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VSB - Technical University of Ostrava and a prestigious US company Silicon Graphics International Corp. (SGI®) signed today the delivery contract for the so-called Big Cluster. During the first half of 2015 will be installed in Ostrava a petaflop-class system. Its performance will thus surpass almost twentyfold the current Ostrava’s supercomputer Anselm. With the latest Intel® Xeon® processors and Xeon PhiTM coprocessors, the supercomputer in Ostrava will become one of systems with the highest performance in Europe that use this type of chips.