From Scalable AI to Hybrid Quantum: The IT4Innovations Computing Continuum

Abstract: The presentation focuses on the AI- and QC-centred computing continuum at IT4Innovations (IT4I), showing how GPU-accelerated HPC, data services, and emerging quantum resources are being integrated to support modern AI workflows and near-term quantum experimentation. On the AI side, we outline platforms and tools that raise productivity for training and inference at scale (e.g., HyperQueue for heterogeneous scheduling, HEAppE and LEXIS for HPC-as-a-Service and federated workflows) and describe access routes that connect Czech users to EuroHPC capacity, including LUMI and forthcoming AI-Factory services. On the QC side, we detail the VLQ superconducting quantum computer (24 qubits, star-shaped topology) and its role in hybrid HPC–QC pipelines for optimisation, small-scale quantum chemistry, and quantum-enhanced ML, alongside practical enablers such as error-mitigation strategies and classical pre/post-processing on Karolina and partner EuroHPC systems. We position these capabilities within e-INFRA CZ and the EuroHPC ecosystem, highlight representative impacts across science, industry, and public administration (from crisis-management analytics to drug-discovery workflows), and sketch next steps: federating AI factories and quantum systems, operationalising VLQ within EuroHPC access schemes, and commissioning Barbora NG to expand AI-ready throughput. Together, these developments advance a usable path from today’s large-scale AI to tomorrow’s hybrid quantum-accelerated applications.

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Audience: researchers in the topic

Nečas Seminar on Continuum Mechanics

Series comments: This seminar was founded on December 14, 1966.

Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Sokolovská 83, Prague 8. If not written otherwise, we will meet on Mondays at 15:40 in lecture hall K3 (2nd floor)