IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava is the strategic research infrastructure in the Czech Republic. In the framework of the national supercomputing center, the most powerful supercomputing facilities in the Czech Republic are being built and excellent research in HPC technologies and embedded systems is performed.
The mission of the centre is to deliver scientifically excellent and industry relevant research in the fields of high performance computing and embedded systems. The centre is providing state-of-the-art technology and expertise in high performance computing and embedded systems and makes it available for Czech and international research teams from academia and industry. It aspires to improve the quality of life, to increase the competitiveness of industrial sector and to promote the cross-fertilization of high-performance computing, embedded systems and other scientific and technical disciplines. The centre conducts research in the areas of earth science simulations for disaster management, traffic management, numerical modelling for engineering, physics and chemistry, development of libraries for parallel computing, modelling for nanotechnologies, soft-computing methods, recognition and presentation of multimedia data and safe and reliable architectures, networks and protocols.
The centre has also strong link to industrial sector. Currently, the largest Intel® Xeon Phi™ co-processor-based cluster in Europe is being installed at IT4Innovations national supercomputing center premises.