Monthly Archives: September 2024

At the beginning of the summer, IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center launched a new CUDA Quantum simulator, which can be run on the Karolina and Barbora supercomputers in Ostrava. It is available to all IT4Innovations users with an active project and, thus, also to Czech companies.

“The simulator is relatively easy to start with,” explains Silvie Illésová from the IT4Innovations Quantum Computing Lab. “The documentation contains an illustrative example that anyone can try out after installation,” adds Illésová. Currently, QPU calculations are simulated on supercomputer GPUs, and tasks can be programmed in Python. In addition, the use of a coda environment makes its installation user-friendly.

World leaders in supercomputing gathered for four days in Ostrava. From 8 to 11 September, the 15th International Conference “Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics” (PPAM) occurred here. This important conference was organised by the Czestochowa University of Technology in Poland in cooperation with the IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Centre and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the VSB-TUO.

One of the special guests was the legendary Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, whose groundbreaking work has fundamentally influenced current standards in supercomputing. The “father of supercomputing” was even interviewed, which you can read or listen to as a podcast. PPAM was also graced with Satoshi Matsuoka, Director of the RIKEN Center for Computational Science, who was behind developing some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Experts from IT4Innovations Lubomír Říha and Ondřej Vysocký also presented their expertise at the conference.

At the beginning of the school year, on September 5, 2024, the ninth edition of the unique Art & Science Festival, which combines science, research and education with creative thinking and art, took place on the campus of VŠB-TUO. The scientific and artistic parts of the programme are naturally intertwined and complement each other, because “doing science” is always art and art is sometimes a science too.

Children, teachers and the general public had the opportunity to learn more about the world of supercomputing and, thanks to the National Centre of Competence for HPC, about the use of supercomputers in practice at the IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Centre’s booth. The lucky quiz round, puzzles and the knowledge game for super prizes were popular again.

Soak up the festival atmosphere from our photo gallery.