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This year´s edition of the Slovenian Supercomputing Network Days 2024 conference, which took place in Ljubljana from 3 to 5 December, brought together experts in supercomputing and artificial intelligence, as well as representatives of the National Competence Centres in High-Performance Computing (NCC in HPC) and Centres of Excellence (CoE).

The event was organised by EuroCC SLING, the Slovenian NCC in HPC, which presented its areas of operation and services, the Slovenian supercomputing infrastructure (especially the VEGA supercomputer) and its planned upgrades. The lectures focused on success stories of using supercomputers in research and industry.

The Czech NCC in HPC was represented by Tomáš Karásek, who presented a paper on best practices in networking and developing cooperation with companies. Sharing our experience was highly interesting and inspired other participants to join the discussion. Moreover, sharing our experience in developing effective training programmes and gathering information on users’ training needs was also met with interest.

The conference was preceded by the Central European Regional Group Meeting, where we discussed current topics and challenges with colleagues from the Polish, Austrian, Croatian, and Dutch NCCs in HPC. This dialogue fostered our regional cooperation and created the basis for further joint projects.

A recording of the whole event is available here.

Innovative companies and ambitious start-ups have a unique opportunity to receive significant support for technological development in 2025. The European Innovation Council (EIC) has launched a new EUR 300 million Step-up Facility to support the development of digital and engineering innovation, sustainable technologies, and biotechnologies.

Selected projects can receive funding of up to EUR 30 million, opening the door to significant technology developments for companies. Plus, we will help you design how to accelerate your projects with the power of supercomputers.

What areas does the initiative target?

• Digital and Engineering Technologies, specifically semiconductors, artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, sensors, robotics, and autonomous systems.
• Sustainable technologies focusing on net-zero solutions such as solar and wind energy, battery storage, geothermal energy, hydrogen, biogas, carbon capture, as well as circular economy and nuclear energy.
• Biotechnology, including critical drug discovery, DNA/RNA, proteins, cell engineering, gene vectors, bioinformatics, and nanobiotechnology.

How to participate?

Applications are now open, and interested parties can submit their projects via the EIC website. The evaluation of the submitted projects takes place on a quarterly basis. Detailed information on the programme and funding conditions can be found here.

We can help you accelerate your plan with supercomputers

Solving such global challenges generally requires the employment of advanced data analysis, simulation, modelling, artificial intelligence, and, therefore, supercomputers or the aforementioned quantum technologies. In these areas, we will be happy to guide you and help you create tailored solutions.

Turn your innovative ideas into successful solutions and join the technological leaders in Europe.

All you need to do is contact us and get free support from experts in supercomputing and quantum computing in practice.

Our team prepares dozens of training courses per year for those interested in learning about high-performance computing, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing. We offer courses and workshops ranging from beginner level to deeply specialised topics for the advanced.

However, user needs are changing dynamically. Therefore, we identify current needs through a Training Needs Survey when preparing new training programmes.

The InnoVerse 2024 conference has become a key event supporting entrepreneurship, innovation, science, and technology not only in the Moravian-Silesian Region. We are proud to be the main partner of this inspiring event, which welcomed more than 500 participants to the auditorium of VSB—Technical University of Ostrava on 28 November 2024.

Through a hands-on workshop, pitch-deck session, and supercomputing booth, we showed participants that supercomputing is not science fiction but an effective tool for innovation.

However, the greatest success of this event lies in establishing contacts with several companies interested in learning more about the possibilities of adopting supercomputing in their practice.

This event represents a further step towards the broader deployment of high-performance computing in industry and research. We thank the organisers from the Moravian-Silesian Innovation Centre (MSIC) for this exceptional conference and look forward to the next edition.

Soak up the atmosphere of this year’s InnoVerse from the photo gallery below.

At the beginning of November, IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center held a conference for its current and future supercomputing users. During the programme, we introduced the participants to Europe’s most powerful supercomputer network and how to access it. This network also includes the Karolina supercomputer in Ostrava, operated by IT4Innovations.

Interested participants thus received the most up-to-date information on computing systems and planned innovations presented by the pan-European EuroHPC Joint Undertaking at the user conference held in Amsterdam in October.

However, we mainly presented key details about the five types of EuroHPC JU calls through which it is possible to apply for computational resources of European supercomputers. We also provided an overview of the evaluation process concerning the submitted project applications and the closure dates of each call.