Partners

Czech Republic

IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava

IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava is a leading research, development, and innovation centre active in the fields of High-Performance Computing (HPC), Data Analysis (HPDA), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Quantum Computing (QC) and their application to other scientific fields, industry, and society. IT4Innovations operates the most powerful supercomputing systems in the Czech Republic, which are provided to Czech and foreign research teams from academia and industry. Since 2013, IT4Innovations has been providing state-of-the-art supercomputing technologies and services to both Czech and foreign research teams from academia and the private sector to increase the competitiveness and innovativeness of Czech science and industry. At present, IT4Innovations runs three supercomputers: Czech most powerful supercomputer Karolina (15.7 PFlop/s, installed in the summer of 2021), Barbora (849 TFlop/s, installed in the autumn of 2019), and the specialised NVIDIA DGX-2 system for artificial intelligence computation, (130 TFlop/s and 2 PFlop/s in AI, installed in the spring of 2019). Apart from the supercomputers operated at IT4Innovations, Czech research communities also have access to the LUMI supercomputer thanks to IT4Innovations’ membership in the LUMI consortium.

Poland

Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center

Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), affiliated to the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, is an internationally renowned node of the European Research Area in the field of IT for science and a major R&D center in Poland. PSNC has designed and built the POZMAN metropolitan network, the high-performance computing center and the national broadband network PIONIER. PSNC is the Polish national provider of comprehensive services in the field of cloud computing, high-performance computing (HPC) computing, server virtualisation, data storage systems and data management. PSNC’s most powerful supercomputer is Altair, which is included in lists of the world’s fastest and most energy-efficient computers: TOP500 and Green500. Altair’s computing power is 6 PFlops.

Slovakia

Slovak National Supercomputing Centre

The National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) is a legal entity association founded in 2020 to support and cover all activities in the field of high-performance computing (HPC) in Slovakia. Its members are the Centre of Operations  of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Information Technology of the Slovak Republic (MIRRI SR). NSCC supports the development of HPC in Slovakia, including projects and investments in building the HPC ecosystem, strengthening competencies and skills in HPC+ technologies, and supporting their adoption across sectors. We want to develop cooperation with Slovak universities, the Slovak Academy of Sciences and other stakeholders at the national and international levels. NSCC also covers access to computing resources, including the Devana supercomputer operated by the Computing Centre of SAS. Its basic parameters are a total performance of 800 TFLOP/s, a universal module with 140 computing servers, and an accelerated module consisting of 8 computing nodes containing 4 GPGPU accelerators each.

Czech Republic

IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava

IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center (IT4Innovations) is part of VSB-Technical University of Ostrava. The first supercomputer, called Anselm with its theoretical peak performance of 94 TFLOPs, was installed in temporary containers in May 2013. Currently ranking 214th most powerful supercomputer in the world, Salomon was put into operation in July 2015. Since the summer of 2015, both Anselm and the newer supercomputer Salomon have been installed in the new IT4Innovations building at the Poruba campus of VSB. Besides operating the supercomputers, IT4Innovations is a representative of excellent research in computer science, particularly in the field of supercomputing (i.e. High Performance Computing). IT4Innovations is a research centre with strong international connections. Since its foundation in 2011, IT4Innovations has been a member of PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), a prestigious pan-European research infrastructure, where it represents the Czech Republic. Moreover, IT4Innovations is also involved in the European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing (ETP4HPC), which is focused on defining research priorities in the area of supercomputing in Europe.

Hungary

Governmental Information-Technology Development Agency (GITDA)

KIFÜ is the Hungarian National Research and Education Network provider and also the national HPC services provider. KIFÜ distributes its resources amongst Hungarian academics and research teams. The priority for KIFÜ is to keep their systems up to date with the most advanced technologies available, in order to serve the widest possible range of the scientific community. Their most powerful high performance cluster is currently Leo (254 TFLOP/s, 84 compute nodes, 4920 cores, 10 TB RAM). Collaboration between KIFÜ and VŠB – Technical University of Ostrava, IT4Innovations dates back to 2012, when these two organizations became actively involved in the EC-funded Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) project. Our colleagues work together in different work packages and maintain an amicable professional relationship. Besides PRACE, we also collaborate in the INTERREG InnoHPC project.

Slovakia

Computing Center of the Service and Operations Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

The Computing Center of the Service and Operations Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) provides IT services and support to the research organizations of the SAS. Since 2012 it has been operating and providing the resources of the national HPC infrastructure, with two clusters in Žilina and Košice, and a supercomputer called Aurel, which is the most powerful system of the national HPC infrastructure (128 TFLOP/s, 122 nodes, 4096 cores, 32 TB RAM). Its resources are distributed amongst scientists and researchers from the SAS and Slovakian universities, but are also integrated with the European ecosystem via the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE). Through PRACE, the Slovak Academy of Sciences collaborates with partners including IT4Innovations, KIFÜ, and PSNC. IT4Innovations and the Slovak Academy of Sciences have jointly organized training events in the past.

Poland

Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center – Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) is the Polish national provider of extensive services in the field of cloud computing, High Performance Computing (HPC) calculations, server virtualization and data storage systems, as well as data management. The Eagle Supercomputer is currently in 172nd place on the TOP500 list of the fastest computing installations in the world (1.4 PFlops of computing power, 1078 Huawei blade servers, 33 thousand cores, 120 TB RAM). Their infrastructure, including both the “Eagle” system and the data collection and archiving cloud, is used for calculations as a part of international and national research projects. It is also an important part of the computing system in Europe, implemented by the PRACE initiative (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe). PSNC also collaborates in the communication and dissemination of the PRACE project.