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DevConf 2020 - the biggest event for developers, administrators, and users of Linux and open source in Central Europe - is once again going to take place in co-operation with the Faculty of Information Technology at the FIT campus. Over 1500 participants and 300 speakers from all over the word are expected to participate in the 12th year of the conference which will take place from 24 to 26 January. This year, the conference will tackle a variety of topics ranging from the development of cloud applications to machine learning, artificial intelligence and infrastructure administration tools. Workshops on application development and other advanced topics in the area of source development will also be available. Find the full agenda of the conference HERE. A record of the main presentations will be published after the event.

More than 13,000 participants attended SC'19 - the top supercomputing technologies conference in Denver, USA. FIT would not miss this and so the SC@FIT research group attended the event and presented three research posters: one on adaptation and optimisation of distributed ultrasound simulations for the Nvidia DGX-2 server - the most powerful GPU-based machine in Central and Eastern Europe; one presenting the results of a PhD thesis on acceleration of ultrasound simulations using heterogeneous architectures; and one on automated planning, execution and monitoring of large-scale simulation workflow systems consisting of hundreds of individual tasks of various levels of computational complexity.

Clothing you do not want to wear anymore but that can still be used will be collected from this Tuesday at FIT in room Q222. The clothes will be collected as a part of the Giving Tuesday initiative until 10 December. "We donate the clothes to people in need. We co-operate with the day-care centre of Local Charity in Žďár nad Sázavou that takes care of persons with mental and multiple disabilities," said Radka Báčová from the FIT's Project Department.

The department is planning to organise other events in the future, such as grant-funded consultations for students and researchers, series of lectures, internships for student or installation of a library box. "We welcome all those who have their own ideas on how to contribute to the social responsibility of Czech research, or would like to participate in it and do something for themselves, for their university and society," Radka Báčová added. Those interested in co-operation can contact her by e-mail at bacova@fit.vutbr.cz.