HISTORY
History of the CERIT-SC Centre
Infrastructure
Centre CERIT-SC (CERIT Scientific Cloud) is a national centre operating computing and data storage infrastructure for research and development. With its capacity of approx. 7000 CPU cores and over 10 PB storage capacity it is the largest node of Czech national e-Infrastructure MetaCentrum.
Centre CERIT-SC is a part of the national e-infrastructure E-INFRA CZ recognized in the Roadmap of Large Infrastructures for Research, Experimental Development and Innovation of the Czech Republic, complementary to the CESNET association and IT4Innovations supercomputing centre, with emphasis on experimental ("leading edge" and even disruptive) use of the e-infrastructure to meet the evolving user needs.
Besides operating its own resources, CERIT-SC enters other national and international infrastructure projects (ELIXIR CZ, H2020 West-life, EOSC CZ...) or closely collaborates with them (BBMRI, Cetocoen, RECETOX, ...) with the responsibility of e-infrastructure design and operation.
CERIT-SC is hosted at Institute of Computer Science of Masaryk University.
Research and development
E-infrastructure research and development is primarily driven by the requirements of the e-infrastructure evolution and its flexible advanced use.
Research collaborations with scientific communities from many scientific areas. CERIT-SC users do not act only as service consumers, but mainly as partners in research and production application of its results. CERIT-SC is usually responsible for the e-infrastructure and data processing related part of the research, thus allowing researchers and their teams to focus on and progress more quickly with their own research.
News
Masaryk University scientists were analysing Mendel’s DNA in cooperation with the CERIT-SC Center
21 Jul 2022Scientists from Brno’s Masaryk University were analysing the DNA of the “father of genetics”, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel in cooperation with the CERIT-SC Center. The project was held on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Mendel’s birth. The remains of Gregor Johann Mendel were exhumed from the Augustinian tomb in June of last year....
EOSC Roadshow 2022
18 May 2022We invite you to the first EOSC roadshow in Prague, Brno and Ostrava. We start on 1 June in Prague, continue on 3 June in Brno and conclude on 17 June in Ostrava. As part of a series of lectures we will present: * FAIR data and EOSC concepts in international and national context * the proposed implementation of EOSC in the Czech Republic,...
Invitation to the Workshop on Grid Computing 2022 + Conference e-INFRA CZ
10 May 2022We would like to invite you to participate in the Grid Computing Seminar - MetaCentre 2022, which will take place on 10 May 2022 in Prague at the Diplomat Hotel. The seminar is part of the e-INFRA CZ 2022 e-Infrastructure Conference https://www.e-infra.cz/konference-e-infra-cz, which is organized in cooperation of CERIT-SC, CESNET and IT4Innovations. We...
ENVision: Data-analytical platform for dynamic evaluation of Sentinel-2 data for the Czech Republic
21 Nov 2021The CERIT-SC Center (Institute of Computer Science of Masaryk University), and the Institute of Global Change Research of the ASCR (CzechGlobe) designed and implemented the first prototype of the ENVision (Environment Vision) data analysis platform, designed for comprehensive environmental assessment and state of (not only Czech) landscape. The main...
