VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava

VSB – TUO is a part of Czech public universities system. More than 24 thousand students study there, its seven faculties specialize mainly in technical and economy fields. One of them is the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (FEECS) that specializes mainly in applied research arising from the cooperation with industrial enterprises and public administration bodies. Currently FEECS is preparing the project IT4Innovations whose goal is to create in the Czech Republic a national research centre of excellence specializing in information technologies, including the building of the supercomputer centre.

The research programme of the Department of Applied Mathematics and the Department of Computational Sciences of FEECS is focused on developing effective methods of mathematical modelling and their integration into the solution of the specified complex scientific and engineering problems. Research teams at VŠB-TU Ostrava have extensive experience with parallel implementations of algorithms, either with the developed libraries or without. Many algorithms have been tested on supercomputers EPCC in Edinburgh, at Stanford University, University of Colorado at Boulder, Johannes Kepler University Linz.

VSB – TUO project team will focus especially on the field of optimisation of applications on multi-core systems. Research team of VSB-Technical University of Ostrava is prepared to exploit its experience in the development of numerical methods and software for the solution of complex problems arising from mathematical modelling of engineering problems. With regard to the insufficient use of HPC applications in the Czech Republic and team experience in progressive learning methods, the project team will also participate in PRACE 1IP training and dissemination activities.