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The research laboratory Sitola<\/strong> was established in 2002 as a joint facility of the Faculty of Informatics<\/a> and Institute of Computer Science<\/a> at Masaryk University and the CESNET association<\/a>. Its research concentrates on advanced technologies for high-performance computing, big data processing, high-speed networking, and planning with scheduling. Theoretical research is driven by applications from various domains represented by, e.g. multimedia processing, chemistry, life sciences and healthcare, cybersecurity, and scheduling in distributed environments with transport planning. The theoretical studies are complemented by the development of sophisticated algorithms and powerful programming tools that are essential outputs of the research. The concrete results include UltraGrid<\/a> environment for processing and transmission of multimedia in very high resolution (uncompressed 8K), GPU acceleration and autotuning environment, analysis of data from the police investigation, scheduling of the national large-scale computing infrastructure.<\/p>\n

\nThe laboratory has unique access to advanced visualization technologies and large-scale infrastructure facilities including high-speed networks (40 Gb\/s and more), big data storages (PB and more) and heterogeneous computing resources (GPUs, MIC, NUMA). It is participating in international projects in cooperation with the foreign partners and commercial companies where both graduate and pre-graduate students are involved.\n<\/p>\n

Research Focus<\/h2>\n

In the area of high performance computing<\/b>, we mainly focus on automatic code optimization methods (application-parameters autotuning, kernel fusion) and development of highly-optimized parallel programs for conventional CPUs and accelerators. The research is done in close collaboration with CERIT-SC<\/a> Centre and its research programme.<\/a><\/p>\n

Our group collaborates on many interdisciplinary projects<\/b>, mainly in area of computational chemistry and biology<\/b>. We are responsible for development of novel methods (transport processes in proteins analysis with CaverDock<\/a>), or parallelization and optimization of existing ones (cryo-EM reconstruction with Xmipp<\/a>, digital metadynamics in Plumed<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Complex networks<\/b> are a rich formalism combining graph theory, statistics and complex system modeling. We focus<\/a> on applications in neuroscience such as changes in whole-brain connectivity in health and disease, and on modeling of dynamical processes on networks, e.g. in historical context.<\/p>\n

Very-high quality and low-latency, multi-point audiovisual transmissions bind together research and development in both multimedia technologies and high-speed networks<\/b>. We participate on the development of the UltraGrid<\/a> software for low latency and high-quality video network transmissions focusing especially on telemedicine or applications in arts.<\/p>\n

Planning and scheduling<\/b> are research areas with a wide range of applications. Our focus<\/a> is related to scheduling problems in traffic control, job scheduling and data transfer planning in distributed computing environments or educational timetabling.<\/p>\n

More information concerning past and current research topics can be found in the Research<\/a> section.<\/p>\n

Laboratory Equipment<\/h2>\n

Researchers in our laboratory have access to a unique set of equipment \u2014 from high-end commercial systems (e.g., stereo projection in HD resolution or a wide range of videoconferencing apparatuses) to systems of our own construction, part of which has been developed in a cooperation with our foreign partners and commercial companies (e.g., optic multicast switch or a display wall with the 8K resolution (scalable up to 16K).<\/p>\n

Laboratory network connection consists of<\/p>\n